I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.’ Falling Angels

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.