“Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?”

“It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.”

“I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.”

“Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.”

“Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”

“It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”