She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.