Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.