Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Life is scarier than death.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember