The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

Pride would never be her ally.

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.

Where we love is home

Love seeks out that desperate, lonely, frightened place inside each of us and coaxes it out into the daylight, so that it can eviscerate it in the burning heat of the sun.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.