Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Most of My Friends are two-thirds water

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.

I believe we all have one address and that is Earth.

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

No matter how long your night may have been, as the earth remains, your morning will definitely come.

He was right that I was afraid. But I didn’t think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.