We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.

If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.

Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered.

I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.