"I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r"
"The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing."
"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."
"It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person."
"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."