Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?