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What happens to you doesn’t belong to you, only half concerns you. It’s not yours. Not yours only.
“Love is the enemy of sound judgment, and occasionally this is in service of the good.
Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don’t care how you got there.”
Maybe that’s what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future.
When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person.
It’s like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It’s the same thing, but...
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Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels,
The vast generosity of women is a mysterious tunnel, and nobody knows where it leads.
When I was a very young writer, my mentor cautioned me that I should always write about “people and their problems, not problems and their people.”
wasn’t sure how to go forward. Novels, like love, can’t be forced. But also like love, novels can enter your life in an instant.
Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen: “What happens to you doesn’t belong to you, only half concerns you. It’s not yours. Not yours only.”
