One could not blame a people for disliking vampires. Vampires were like brussels sprouts - not for everyone and impossible to improve upon with sauce.

The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.

I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.