When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.