You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify
Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.
Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.