What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.
What Trixie wanted, most of all, what she couldn't have - to go back to being the kind of girl who worried about things like science tests and whether any college would admit her, instead of being the...
We don’t have to accept each other’s beliefs…but we do have to accept each other’s right to believe them.
We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.
We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.
Violence, from one angle, looked like mercy from another.
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.
Things don't always look as they seem.
They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.
There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometim...
There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.
There are certain things I do not talk about.
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand dif...
The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to...
The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’swith the fabric of this society itself.
The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.
The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
The bottom line, Seven explained last night, is that we never fall for the people we’re supposed to.
The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.