“We watch her walk into the spotlight shes been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, its about trust. But if anyo...”

“Being different is the only way to live”

“She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.”

“Its when Im around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now”

“Dad and I leave town in the early dark. It's the second Sunday of the holidays, and we pack up the old blue car with enough clothes for summer and hit the road. It's so early he's wiping hills of s...”

“I didnt say you werent smart. I said you were stupid.I guess Im too dumb to see the difference.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“Izzy was utterly convinced. Never mind Arabian horses, African cheetahs. No creature in the world could bolt so quickly as a rake confronted with the word "marriage". They ought to shout it out at ...”

“Well, then, he ought to write her a letter. He ought to say: 'This is to tell you that I propose to live with you as soon as this show is over. You will be prepared immediately on cessation of acti...”

“Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman.”