My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.

death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.