“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”

“We are friends for life. When were together the years fall away. Isnt that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far youve come?”

“The truth will make you odd.”

“Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?''I'm not sure... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.”

“We must, we must, we must increase our bust.”

“Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”

“When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.”

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”

“Censorship exists to protect corruption.”

“God can use the jawbone of an ass!”

“Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.”

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. ...”