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

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

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.

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

No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.