“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”

“I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.”

“She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.”

“The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.”

“Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.”

“It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.”

“For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.”