No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.