That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

My soul hurts.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.

I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. It's my natural voice.

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll

Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.

I have to admit, a manicured look works for me.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.