He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.