“Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs.”

“Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.”

“Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.”

“I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.”

“I still don't know where you came from," he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.”

“She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.”

“My religion is Get Over It.”

“Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.”

“Resilience is about B.O.U.N.C.E-Bouncing forward includes bouncing back.”

“great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this aft...”

“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on ...”