I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.