She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

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.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Grief can choke you. It’s dangerous, something else you have to beat.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.