“Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.”

“It is important for women to do something about what they see.”

“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?”

“Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.”

“It is impossible not to make mistakes during a war.”

“Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.”

“The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day--a way of relating.”