Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.