Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Be lovely and do no harm.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.