Occupation: Novelist Birth: January 12, 1969
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power..
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just me….
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw..
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured..
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future..
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting f….
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most..
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance.
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears..
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind..
Travel far enough, you meet yourself..
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices..
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair..
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to..
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths..
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way..
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it..
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpabl….
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction..