Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.

I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.

I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.

Because I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawn

How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.

Colors speak all languages.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

I'm a star player when it comes to being sociable. It's because I'm inquisitive. When I meet someone for the first time, I want to start up a conversation with them.