I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

I think there is still pressure to marry. I think there is still pressure to have children. If you're middle or upper class, those pressures exist at a later age now.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.