There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

That wasn't your mom in you—that was your dad.

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

Pretend and it will be true.

In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.