it's amazing what you can get used to.

My goal in life is to become an adjective.

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.