We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."