"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."
"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"
"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."
"I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr."
"Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome."
"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."