Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.