only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

Greasy food is so comforting when you are hungover.

Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.