In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.