“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“Even death has a heart.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”