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

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

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

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.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

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

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.