When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.