weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

Easy comfort isn't comforting