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I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

Freedom consists of being insulated from the envy and ignorance of the unimportant people who temporarily surround her.

Well, what was wrong with it?"
"We don't know," says James.
"That's a stupid rotten answer."
"Life is sometimes rotten and stupid.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

He thought his heart would kill him, he'd had no clue what it was capable of.

When stories are not told, we risk losing our way.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Then she kissed me in that way that makes me hate time.

It's more like... It keeps the world out so I can be in my own thoughts.

'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.

Perhaps God dropped them on their heads before they were born.

Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling. One she hadn't known was ever hers to forget. Happiness.

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

Teresa blames herself for believing that she was indispensable to Mahmoud. Pride goeth before a fall.

But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.

Ignore them. Don't give them the opportunity to snub you. Carry yourself like you own the place.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

An unhappily married woman is necessarily a bad cook.

Be strong enough to carry the burden of sin that goes with doing the right thing.

From the book:
Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.

Kathleen is truly and utterly and completely Kathleen in New York. That's what the city does for you if it's meant for you.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

What is the good of believing fervently in God if you wind up hating Him?

He would have enough money ... for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.

She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You'll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.

It's where she belongs, she craves the caress of the violent shore, to come alive like that once more in a clash of stone and then to die.

You're not bad ... you're just lost."
"I know exactly where I am."
"That doesn't mean you're not lost.

Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

She is why purgatory was invented.