I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.