And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.