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“(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.”

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“One single syllable of intimacy and the world is put to rights.”

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“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And…

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I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would…

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Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

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I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. But…

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“For a moment he considered running across the platform to tell people about the empty seats in the carriage, but he decided not to…

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I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice…

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“Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here”

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You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

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