Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

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.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.