Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.