No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

It is not aloofness, superiority. It’s a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn’t want to gather close her comrades?

Things can get pretty rough out there, " he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.

It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.

...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.

Love is a kind of killing, Addy, " she says. "Don't you know that?

I love you more than I think I should.

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

What you want is within reach. Go for it.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.

Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost.

I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.