“ Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school...”

“I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.”

“Youre going to tell me that last night shouldnt have happened.No. Im glad it happened. For too long, Ive been telling myself that I could spend all this time with yo and flirt with you and not have...”

“Tell me why. My voice shook. Tell me right now.”

“Im going, and dont you dare try to stop me.I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.”

“It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people Id loved the most in the world, the ones Id always told all my secrets to, the ones Id wanted to hide with far away fro...”

“Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable.”

“Tell me why. My voice shook. Tell me right now.”

“Im going, and dont you dare try to stop me.I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.”

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”

“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this i...”

“If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty of your love. Remind me of important things -- friends, flowers, fields of cool grass under bar...”

“Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.”