"It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are."
- Jennifer Echols
"I love you.”I stared stupidly at him. Was he joking again, reciting another line from my story? I didn’t remember writing this.He leaned in and kissed me. I didn’t respond for a few seconds. My mind l..."
"Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?"
"Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous."
"You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back."
"I turned to the clarinets. They were a resourceful lot."
"Seeing him jogging at the park had cracked the window so I could peek into his soul. Seeing him with his friends threw the window wide"
"I continued to move my fingers across his skin exactly as I had before, but I needed to make a decision. I had reached for him, but I could back out of it by trailing my fingers down his arm and settl..."
"You should never start something when you haven't finished the last thing. People feel used that way."
"Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels."