I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.