I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.