Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.