It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.