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- Even writers need relief from words.
- Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
- Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.
- Aimee Mullins, Ted Conference, How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers, February 2009
- You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
- When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
- I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.
- Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
- There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 02-25-09
- Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
- Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
- When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.
- Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
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