“He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the neighbors might come to know. He burned the fear out of me until all was left… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman Copy Share
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed. — Ru Freeman Copy Share
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman Copy Share
“Such bliss is not meant to last. In my husband's house, my children were my real gifts.” — Ru Freeman Copy Share
“And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for, a girl… — Ru Freeman Copy Share
“There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without… — Ru Freeman Copy Share
I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for… — Ru Freeman Copy Share
“He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the… — Ru Freeman Copy Share
I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how… — Ru Freeman Copy Share
I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere. — Ru Freeman Copy Share
My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write… — Ru Freeman Copy Share
Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He… — Ru Freeman Copy Share
