Occupation: Writer Birth: November 9, 1973
I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and ….
But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies..
Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it..
Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happ….
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to….
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I w….
When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed..
There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for i….
I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning..
These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel ….
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life..
Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together..
When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive..
When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my parents on Sundays, so I spent a lot of tim….
I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literatu….
People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research..
One is but a shade of the other..
Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautif….
Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear..
Reckless action is worse than wise restraint..
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow….