It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy..

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future..

Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory. He was afraid t….

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best..

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back..

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing..

Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than fi….

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about..

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like ….

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday..

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced..

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become..

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has..

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a….

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more..

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother..

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty..

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book..

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love..

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance..