A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.