I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is completely mortal - good, b….

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie..

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting..

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand..

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me..

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as w….

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered..

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my slee….

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration ….

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understandi….

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished ….

I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an idea, hone it, and write it. I come up with thi….

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our….

I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale]..

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me..

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true..

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty..

Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of memoirs written by women who ….

Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old Belgian woman who created an e….

I had read a lot of books on World War II, but I didn't know that downed airmen had hiked over the frozen peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains in shoes th….

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?.