Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.