...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people..

I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read..

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power..

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better..

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time..

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . ..

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other..

when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them..

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior exist….

... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children..

The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe..

There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliabl….

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion..

The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance….

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in t….

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing..

Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so hersel….

Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of ….

Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring w….

The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That ….

There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city be….