I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end..

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing..

No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we….

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it wou….

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no exp….

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door..

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said..

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When….

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am..

When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like ….

I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my he….

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories..

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different..

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much..

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and ….

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense..

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Non….

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new..

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being..

The past is what you take with you..

Become such as you are, having learned what that is..