Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.