Whenever people say a coincidence in a novel is implausible, I think, Do I have a story for you.
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
The only way you learn is by failure.
Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.