Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

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.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought that book was speaking to me. I was 12 or 13 when I read that. I read everything on my mother's bookshelves.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.