“What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?”

“The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.”

“If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.”

“Funny how you can measure time by pets that were not even your own.”

“I can't exactly say why I've chosen to write about the things that I am writing about. There are doubtless better stories from my life that I am missing, events and escapades I am not wise enough to know were important. If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars that they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead. p 179 ”

“I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.”

“Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too! ”