It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.