But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

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.

But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.

Hi there, " squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. But I didn't know I was stronger than I thought.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Forney in Where the Heart Is has more fans than any other character Ive played.

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Who you think you are is what compels you to do what you do!

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.