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Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications.

I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

After Margaret moved to Florida they continued to stay in touch in a Christmas card/life-milestone way.

We'll walk from here to the

I am truly anxious to get on with my life.

How dare he fall in love with his own wife! -Salai

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.

Sixth graders had stopped asking "Now what?" and had started asking "So what?" She had not been sorry to retire when she did.

Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me.
- Connor Kane

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

Loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason.

Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.

My face is something between groteque and beautiful, Salai. It is something far less interesting; it is plain.

Having words and explanations for things is too modern

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space
it makes connections.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible. - Mrs. Zender

I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says between you and I.

Good explanations are like bathing suits, darling; they are meant to reveal everything by covering only what is necessary.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested.

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

Branwell told a cruel lie in silence.

Parke-Bernet Galleries.

The eyes are the windows of the soul ... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

I prefer not to.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

There's something nice and safe about having money.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world.

True simplicity is elegant.

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

How can you know what is missing if you've never met it? You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence.

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

Jennifer," I asked, "what do you ever do besides read?"
She looked up at the sky and sighed and said very seriously, "I think.