It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.