Janie calls Cabel. "Hi, uh, Mom," she says. Cabel snorts. "Hello, dear. Did you make it through the blizzard?" "Yeah. Barely." Janie grins into the phone.

It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.

The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.

Hippie said he couldn't stay. Be back tomorrow -Love,Mom

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.

And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.

Get me outa here. F*ckin' creepy cheerleaders.

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.