To know someone, to be known. That matters more than he’d ever thought it would.
There are always rumors, and there are always secrets. And secrets within secrets. They protect us. The truth can be manipulated. But we live within a secret within a secret within a secret within a secret.
The dirt,” he says, his voice strangely peaceful. “What about it?” she asks. “It’s dirty.
Is he blaming her? Does he think she led on El Captain or was having a relationship with him at the same time as Bradwell? She turns and wals, unsteadily, along the walls of the airship, to the door in the cabin, now almost overhead, that leads outside.
A wave could crash down on an individual and sweep them out to sea. But if we stand together, we buoy up and then down. It’s but a ripple.
It’s not the first time in his life he’s felt like a man.
And now I live with that sin of cowardice on my face forever.
My memories will be erased and then I’ll be force-fed the story from the society pages?
I don’t know you. That’s the problem.
All this time, you’ve been lying to me!
A good novel doesn’t just transcend the boundaries of its target market – it knows nothing about target markets.
Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
Love is a luxury. It’s something that people are allowed to indulge in when they’re not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.
I believe we’re brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we’re capable of.
I’m a woman, but I’ve been a sexist, too.
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
I’m a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
Don’t shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently – as if whispering it into one ear – and to know the characters intimately.
I’ve left the Church – for many reasons that I’ve written about publicly – but it’s still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.