It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.