32 Quotes by Dara Horn

Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.

She didn’t know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from remorse, which one felt first in the throat and only later in the gut. Yet it was regret that she couldn’t handle. She did anything she could to avoid it—including the initial bargain, the one that began everything. And now this one.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.

I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.