Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing world take a chance on you? I don't believe that you need an MFA to be a writer, but I do think you need to take some good workshops.

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.

Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.