It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down