When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
You tell a kid he doesn’t like to read, and he’ll believe you.
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
Sometimes books don’t find us until the right time.
I don’t believe in writer’s block.
There’s a strange sort of quiet when you’re dying. It’s as if you’re in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know.
I don’t think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.
You can’t avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
It’s when you don’t need something that you tend to lose it.
Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.
The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there’s nothing anyone can do or say. It’s broken.
My brain said no. But my heart!
The only love she inspires is the canine kind.
Why do two people fall in love? It’s a mystery.
People, you’ll find, aren’t usually all good or bad. Sometimes they’re just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they’re mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn.
In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you’re on your way to do something else.
But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.