Everything that is,casts a shadow

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.

It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.