Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1979
What if...? A question we ask to hurt ourselves..
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, hone….
Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way..
Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they….
People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller..
The tale is often wiser than the teller..
Perfection is a moving target.
We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most. We are good secret-keepe….
Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives - in our scrabbli….
Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their ba….
We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when t….
Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that ….
I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot full….
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your….
But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked..
There are moments. You will know them..
Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes..
I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else..