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“Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back.”
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“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
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“I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.”
Source : "'How did I end up becoming a novelist?'" by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009. 
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“I supply guns to every army but the Salvation Army.”
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“Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise.”
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“I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.”
Source : "Camila Alves: On What Inspires Her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.”
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“You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.”
Source : Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.112, Macmillan
