The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.