how can a little thing be so annoying?

I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too.

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

i will always tell you the truth.

You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.

I gave you life. You’re wasting it.