When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.