A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.

Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you.

Everyone of us has a new name that winks at us daily because there are rivers of life in our bellies, we just need our mentors to help us to give birth to those new names.

Oh no I know that look. What are you thinking?That this is the most ridiculous declaration of attraction I've ever heard

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.