There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.

As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.