Drama is a gun that doesn't go off.

In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel.

Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

But when you make love, the dead stay close, fill the bed, lie along the bodies in tiers, sandwiching all their lives with yours.

We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!