Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.