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.

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.

Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go

I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.

I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.