My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

Hey, it’s nice of you to show up!” That was a decent start. “What has it been—a year since you flattened my heart by leaving without a word and ignoring all of my texts, messages, and voicemails?

Sweet and savory, it was the honey of our existence, DNA with the message: This is who I am.

a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

Wars have always started over religion

This isn't what I wanted. This isn't what I would have chosen. You must know that. It's important you know that.

The forests have taught man liberty.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.