When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Everybody's damaged by something.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.