Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life’s craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation

All movements go too far.

I was a very sad little girl.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.