“But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible”

“You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.”

“Oh but to write what you think is so amazing- whoosh, whoosh, you don't even know how you're doing it and suddenly there it is, exactly the way it has to be. And when you read it later you're right back in your earlier life again and yet you don't know if you're yourself or someone else.”

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”

“When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This is what we mean by "bones.”

“You always did have a problem with undies. Remember when you wet your pants in the second grade?"- Joyce Barnhardt”