I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?