Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?