When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.

But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.