When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.

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

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena