When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

I have a black belt in sarcasm, and my wit is like lightning.

seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll

I find I'm unable to speak, unable to move, snared in his serious gaze like some kind of frightened rabbit

Hey, Hachi People always say that you only discover how precious something is after you lose it--- but I think, you only really recognize it... when you see it a second time face to face. -Nana Osaki

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

Action first, mistakes second, lessons third.