You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.