There’s no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there’s a something. In fact, there could be everything!
You couldn’t be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.
People see what they want to see when they need to.
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.
You are truly Satan’s sequined spawn.
They misspelled ‘party.’ How evil genius can they be?
Free the snow globes!
I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.
Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.
Memphis – it’s just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It’s what they do. It’s not following you, and it’s not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.
He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.
She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne – bubbly and intoxicating – and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn’t want to seem like an easy mark. “If you must know, I’ve come to join a convent,” Evie said, testing him.
Just because you’re funny doesn’t mean you get to be cruel.
Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.
When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.
Will you punish me forever?
Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.
True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.
We’re like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can’t look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.