“I have an aunt who was a detective in D.C. for over 25 years, and I al...” — Simone Missick Quote

“I have an aunt who was a detective in D.C. for over 25 years, and I always wondered how she was able to do that, and why she chose that profession.”

“We hear people all the time talk about how juvenile facilities are way worse than adult facilities when it comes to helping them to reform, helping them to figure out the tools that they need to not come back. All of that deserves to be discussed and examined by us as a society.”

“If I'd looked at 'Altered Carbon' as the thing I have to hold onto, I wouldn't have been open for Lola Carmichael.”

“If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.”

“I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to go for two weeks or all summer. I wound up staying all summer. And that's where I learned about cattle. I could relate to their behavior, their fears.”

“I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.”