Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.