Tears won’t help me right now. They’ll just make me weaker.

I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.

Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.

When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on to the feelings.

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.

There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.

Sky, wait.” The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

They have dog food for constipated dogs. If your dog is constipated, why screw up a good thing? Stay indoors and let 'em bloat!

To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

He just got his body between himself and the goal.