Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.

There is no God, there is only what you want.