It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

We dreamed together of the world remade.