I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.