“Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.”

“They say all who wander are not lost. But some of us are. We’re really fucking lost, wandering until our feet bleed, and it feels like we’ll never find our way home again.”

“Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her.”

“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”

“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.”

“There are things you want to say but don't There are things I want to say but I already said them A year ago or two or five, when we first met There were times I thought you knew I loved you You never knew We never were I died You died That's it”

“You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.”