We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Most of the people share quotes and wordings not because they follow them or absorb for life but they knows by share it i can be notice as a wise person.

The fight wasn’t over, ” I said through gritted teeth. “I’d have won it.” Probably. “Right, ” he said. “And something just flew past your window. It was oinking.

Legends had been written about less.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Aztec has played a big part in delivering the solutions that our Dallas office has spent timeless hours and energy searching for.

Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination