I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

I think that’s a mercy of this island, actually, that it won’t give us our terrible memories for long, but let us keep the good ones for as long as we want them.

My good mood felt like an endangered species.

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry.