Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.

It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be a movie star" or "I want to be a wizard." I didn't have any concept of what that path would look like. Maybe that's why I didn't publish my first book until I was 38.

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?

A little manic was what their house ran on.

I'm sort of...coming off a bad relationship," "When did it end?" "Slightly before it started.