In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.