What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.