The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

There’s something about girls and unicorns that’s deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

Beating heroin is child’s play compared to beating your childhood.

She looked at me for a second and said, “Oh, never mind. I guess it’s true what Mom said? That you’ve led a sheltered life?”I said I thought the description fairly apt.

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.