Like Ka, the hero of my novel "Snow, " I discovered how it felt to have to leave one' s beloved city for a time on account of one' s political views.

You and I , as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time.

The third was a large young man called Harries whose proposal she briefly accepted in 1802, "but he had nothing to recommend him but his size," so she changed her mind.

And I faced down my own confusion as a mother, as a woman, about the issues that raising a girl raises in me about my own femininity.

That means you need to put any other goals on the backburner for now, and have only one purpose in your life.