There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

I want the younger writer to know that she or he is meaningful, that what they have to say is powerful in this world. But they can't come indoors, they can't close the curtains, they can't, like, lock themselves away from the world and say nothing.

The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.