I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"