It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.