I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.

William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.