Ru Freeman Quotes

I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how they react, how things happen to them, this is what is important. I feel that if I can tell THAT story well, then people will go and Google the rest and fill in what they need to know.

He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the neighbors might come to know. He burned the fear out of me until all was left was desire.

Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

Such bliss is not meant to last. In my husband's house, my children were my real gifts.

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn't being paid for, a girl with no new sandals and a friend who wasn't a friend but a mistress, and a family that wasn't but people who owned her and ordered her about, and nothing at all but her pretty breasts and her round bottom and her misbehaving hair to help her feel any different.

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.