Maybe misery begins everywhere.

Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was.

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.

That's the thing about fiction, that you live in it totally for a little while, but you must forget it, sometimes totally forget it, in order to go about the rest of your day.

But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.

That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him—we were both unable to get near the real life in life.

I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.

Everyone wants to feel like they could destroy a small-to-medium-to-large part of someone who loves them.

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

The best education I've had in my life is to travel.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.