Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

It's never long distance between friends.

I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.

I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.