Why do you need to fly so much?” she asked. “If I don’t, it’ll catch up with me.” The words just came out. “What will?” I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm. “Unhappiness.

We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I said weakly. The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.