I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

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

I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.