Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.