Maybe we don’t get a long past. Maybe we just get a future.

What should he say to this woman that wouldn’t entail ornamenting the tunic of lies he wore?

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

This infuriated my father, who said BYU was a “meat market” and that if Heavenly Father didn’t intend women to understand economics, why did He give them charge of households, and if women weren’t intended to understand philosophy, why were they the first teachers of the word, and if they weren’t intended to practice psychology, why did the Lord intend they should be mothers?

Feelings change fast when you’re a teenager.

There are no coincidences. If something happens and we don’t understand the reason, that doesn’t mean there is no reason. It means that the reason will later be revealed, likely not in this life.