I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

I see the beatitudes of books displayed on a bookshelf.

I am in the prime of my womanhood, nunga-nungas poised and trembling (attractively). Lips puckered up and in peak condition for a snogging fest.

Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.

People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.