For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

My boyfriend is named Percocet, " I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summer.

Be the source of peace and love

Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve it.

You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.

[Ella] “Again, I ask, whose side are you on?”[Lola] “The side that has the least Dorito-flavored vomit on the floor after the party.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.