I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

You just have to let people love you in the way they can