"Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written."
"Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me"
"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you."
"It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out."
"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
"I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else."