I think I deserve something beautiful.

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.