I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.