She has such an ability to draw these characters that are so vivid and so original. But at the same time they're realistic, not over the top.

When you have a child, it forces you to take stock of what you're doing with your life.

The puppies could even be cut with glass right now, or they could even have glass in their eyes. They didn't care about the puppies at all, they just cared about damaging somebody's windows and stealing something.

On the other side of the window there was more puppies, three Chihuahua puppies. They didn't bother those. They went for the two most valuable.

I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me.”

“Something had to be done, she said, “and it was a very ugly vase.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.