Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.