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.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.