Before I take you into the beating heart of the story, let’s get one thing out of the way. I know from experience that when it comes up later, it will distract you so much that you won’t be able to co...
And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.
All right. Normal rules apply.Right.The man walked off, leaving us.What are the normal rules? I asked.He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.
A lot of teenagers write to me and say I want to write a book. I want to get published. And those are two very different things. For the first one, that you want to write a book, I think is an excelle...
I get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times b...
You’ve never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You’re a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I’d bet it’s a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter...
You don't know me yet, I said.Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp, Charlotte said.That's right, I said, turning up my accent a little. These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do...
Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow.
We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been to say something like, You had better come out this moment or...
This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too...
Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.
It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the...
I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours.
Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easie...
Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbeha...
Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.
We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.
The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend....
Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of...