Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.