Writing is a lot like sewing: You bring pieces together and make a quilt. - Rosario Ferré

"The Youngest Doll" was a very important story. It was the story that showed me how to write. It was my first breakthrough.

These times made me search for guidance within myself, for a reason to live. This is where my literature comes from.

[He] worshiped her; her merest whim was a matter of dogma to him. If he lived in a world of fantasy in which art had taken the place of religion, that was all right with her. After all, I can help him be happy in life as well as in death, she thought. Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any. ("Isolda's Mirror")