People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

I would have done anything to feel real again.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.