It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.