When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.

He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.