Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.