1. “Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there, though.”
2. “The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.”
3. “Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
4. “Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”
5. “It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.”
6. “There comes a moment, hen you get lost in the wood, when the woods begin to feel like home.”
7. “It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”
8. “I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.”
9. “Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.”
10. “There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.”
11. “One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.”
12. “My goal in life is to become an adjective.”
13. “Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.”
14. “In the end, it wasn’t death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
15. “You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”
16. “When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”
17. “A girl’s not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it’s sweet.”
18. “To be inclusive you must accommodate different level of sophistication.”
19. All wisdom ends in paradox”.”
20. “Don’t waste your time on life.”
21. “No matter how long you’ve been at it, you always start from scratch.”
22. “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.”
23. “There’s a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I’m writing a character where I put myself in their place.”
24. “I always work in a room where there’s no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.”
25. “You can tell when something’s not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don’t go away.”
26. “People don’t save other people. People save themselves.”
27. “The worst thig about religion w religious people.”
28. “Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.”
29. “Every letter was a love letter.”
30. “Biology gives you brain. Life turns into a mind.”
