You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.