To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.