I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.