New York is a city short on patience, cleanliness, clement weather, and citizens who hold faint opinions. It is not a city short of people trying to make a career of being famous, no matter what the o...
My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hi...
Miss Moore speaks slowly, deliberately. I know because I read. She pulls back and stands, hands on hips, offering us a challenge. May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to h...
Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye, he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend.I've never known a braver girl, he says.
Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.
Memphis cupped her cheek in his hand and put his mouth on hers. Theta had never been kissed the way Memphis was kissing her now. There had been fumbling boys thrumming with nervous want. There had bee...
Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.
Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any hold over you. Remember... the magic (sic)... is a living thing, joined to...
La vida no viene a buscarte, Memphis. Tienes que ir tú a por ella. Los dos tenemos que ir a por ella. Porque nadie va a servírnosla en bandeja.
Just ducky!
I’ve been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on an island, Mary Lou said to Adina one afternoon as they rested on their elbows taking bites from the same papaya. Lord of the Flies. What...
It's just a little initiation we have here at Spence - we like to torture each other. Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.
It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are...
It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body.
It was funny how their odd little family of friends had changed him. Made him feel safe. Theta, Memphis, Henry, Jericho, Mabel, Ling, Isaiah, and especially Evie. They’d been there for him. Opened the...
It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.
It is all I can do not to confide to the girl closest to me: If I should die during tea - asphyxiated by my own corset - please do not let them bury me in such a hideous dress or I shall come back to...
It had been a thudding bore of a day; rain had kept Evie inside at the museum, where she amused herself by rearranging the books on one shelf according to a taxonomy only she understood.
In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.No, you won’t. Taylor stroked the man’s cheek. She reached her arms up to c...