“The chief thing is desire. You've really got to want to do it, you've really got to want to tell that story. And you have to be able to set goals for yourself to get it done.”

“I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.”

“If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.”

“Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.”

“It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”

“The horror had begun.”

“Thrall is a feast of both visceral and existential horror – the gut tightens and the mind reels. Mary Sangiovanni joins that select cadre of women writers who are ignoring the safe old tropes and pushing the genre in new directions.”