But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.