"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person….

If those are your friends, you've got no need for enemies..

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it..

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die..

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools..

8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fu….

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout..

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all..

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits..

We should not accept an evil we can change..

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be..

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel..

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then o….

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you..

I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag ou….

Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that the….

I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out….

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring cra….

Be a little kinder than you have to..

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.