One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.