Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

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

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.