I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.

He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, “And that was just my hand, love.

He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t, ” Lydia answered.

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.

It all began with one small shy smile.

The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.

Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.