My lover is experiencing reverse evolution..

I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quie….

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q....

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments..

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories).

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it..

Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linge….

Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphone….

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this ….

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious..

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, an….

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us..

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time..

The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom..

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple t….

I want to be violated by insight..

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant..

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of wo….

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating..

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense….

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot..