Lucinda Franks

“A family is a mystery. You are born into it, you live in it, and you die in it. And you never really understand it.”

“For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write to find out what I think.”

“The truth is always more complex than the stories we tell ourselves.”

“I felt that I was a spy in the house of my own life.”

“He was a man who lived in a world of secrets, and he took them with him to the grave.”

“We were all products of our time, and we all had our secrets.”

“The more I learned, the less I understood.”

“I think every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”