Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.

Absorbing the fact that sometimes, people do cut you slack and forgive you and want you anyway. Sometimes they do. And when they do, even if it's not a happy ending, it is delicious

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.