If you're gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. “What bird are you calling?” I asked finally, when I couldn’t stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. “You.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.