But like everything else, love changed.

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

I think pants have unique qualities, especially in a woman’s life. Whatever bodily insecurities we have, we seem to take out on our pants.