“Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock,every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.”

“The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.”

“A man touched me:his hand... my thigh.I touched him too:my fist... his jaw.”

“If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.”

“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.”

“I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I dont think being sad is to be avoided. Its apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But f...”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”

“The vision of your tomorrow that you have today strengthens you for the morrow”

“Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”