I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.