I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a...

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

But you know, even worrying about haircuts couldn’t depress me. Because every time I started sinking low, I’d just remember about football. All this time I’d thought I wanted to be a trainer, when it...

Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war,...

And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she’s so comfortable with herself. And you know, that’s not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being...

I could not but wonder at the queen’s unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life...

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can’t think of what to say because I’m so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much...

You watch pro ball and those guys spend so much time with their hands on each other’s rear ends, you’d think they were feeling for diamonds or something.

I saw something I wanted to do and I decided to do it. The feeling of freedom it gave me- I can’t even describe it. It was my decision. I chose it.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase “happily ever after.” Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to...

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they’re right.

She says you’re not truly human until you’ve had your heart broken and you’ve broken someone’s heart.

It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it’s happiness but pretty darn awful if it’s anything sad.