History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.