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For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.

Though my love for you is infinitesimal, your eyes are as dewey as any old decimal.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

I own an e-reader, but I use it almost exclusively to read things that aren't books - student theses, unbound galleys.

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.

No one has asked me a question yet, but I will not shut up.

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

You cannot fly into your own arms.

I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.

I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness,
I don't care what anyone says.

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

I didn't know what it was I was feeling. Then I realized it was seeing someone and knowing immediately that you love him.

I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.

He was talking to strangers, hoping they would absolve him. They are the only ones who ever can.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

People think they're interesting. That's their first mistake.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.

She had a rear end as big as an open dictionary and a bad attitude.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours.

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

I told him that I apologised, that I understood, but really: I am not a museum, not yet, I'm a love letter, a love letter.

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

But you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

All she really wanted was to go to her apartment, to her bedroom, to the back of her walk-in closet, to sit among the shoes.

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.

Said. "I'm just not ready yet." It would take something other than my daily nagging. So one night, a night I knew would be

I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

It's a happy life and someone is missing.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

But you cannot fly away from people who have flown away from you; you cannot fly into your own arms.

History remembers the velvet hearted.

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

Don't run away from your troubles, because they'll sure as hell run faster.