We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

You're a library of me.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.