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.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

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

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.