It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end..

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters..

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three….

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an educa….

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?.

I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like….

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..

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not witho….

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience.….