"Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called."
"How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell."
"I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me."
"Love gives you wings. Icarus and the Challenger both had wings, and so did my first love letter, after I folded it up and flung it at my crush."
"An exercise in unknowing is not the same as not knowing or forgetting."
"I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory."