Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.