A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

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

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.