“Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith t...” — Laurel Lea Quote

“Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.”

“A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.”

“A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.”

“Three be the things I shall never attain:”

“All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.”

“Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'”