I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.

I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.

They say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. if i'd treated her a little nicer.