'I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that is why I started to write. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.'

'Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.'

'Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.'

'I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.'

Loneliness feels like prison.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart.