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A moment might be a thousand different things.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might change.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

He had never even glimpsed her.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

A vase full of flowers: dark red and pale pink in a cloud of baby's breath.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

I just couldn't do it- break all the rules. Blow everything up."
"The world doesn't end," Bree said quietly. "Amazing, but it really doesn't.

I love to swim, and I love being near water.

Short on money, long on hope

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

dirt, but the machine began to make

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

His discomfort seemed to soften her, for when he met her eyes again, they were kind.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

Either things grow and change or they die.

You hold me at arm's length.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

Caroline said easily, amazed all over again at this sudden facility she'd developed, the fluidity and ease of her lies.

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

Sometimes loneliness is an emergency situation

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

...her tone more disapproving than dismayed.

...bleak territory of the heart.

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

I have found that if you love your life ..
Life will love you back .!

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

It's my fault too. For a long time, I wanted to be rescued, I realized that. But not anymore. You don't have to protect me all the time now.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers

Dinosaurs drank this water, did you know that? Water moves forever in a circle; someday, little ones, your grandchildren may even drink your tears.

And the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

I like clothes that are elegant and comfortable.

I don't see how sucking the joy out of every aspect of life can be pleasing to anybody's God

It's good to be in love.

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love
nothing, now, but bones.