It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

I don't believe in writer's block.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.