I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse; it's just being enacted in a new way.

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.