This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.