But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

I noticed that the snow was gone and the ground looked greener. It’s funny how the good stuff can wipe away the bad stuff so quickly.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

If we continue to live as we are living, will the promised blessings be fulfilled?

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.