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

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.

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 write to shed my sacred sorrows.

Be thankful.Be grateful.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.

Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.