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I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles. — Caroline Leavitt

I let out a sigh, hoping it releases some of the bad karma I just incurred from being so heinous. (Sean Griswold's Head) — Lindsey Leavitt

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me. — Caroline Leavitt

When I'm done, I contemplate lying down in the middle of the road to let a car finish me off. I'm already half-dead. — Lindsey Leavitt

What? I didn't say that boy-stealing is a bad thing. — Lindsey Leavitt

I want to live in a world free of air talkers and technological affairs. Is that too much to ask? My — Lindsey Leavitt

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories. — Martine Leavitt

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world. — Caroline Leavitt

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life. — Caroline Leavitt

Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg. — David Leavitt

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me. — Caroline Leavitt

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. — Robert Keith Leavitt

Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair. — David Leavitt

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. — David Leavitt

Like I don't know who I am and I've lost all hope in humanity. — Lindsey Leavitt-Going Vintage

Sex, my darling, is often the least important part of a passion. You'll learn that when you get older. - Maria Luisa (Tushi) Strauss — David Leavitt

Don't whine to your spouse about your daily troubles. He's had a harder day providing for you and your children. This is what you're aspiring to? — Lindsey Leavitt-Going Vintage

She knew she had never been truly alive until she met him, and never so happy and content with her lot until she was touched by the sorrow of him. — Martine Leavitt

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse. — David Leavitt

Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there. — Martine Leavitt

Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you. — David Leavitt

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill. — Caroline Leavitt

I like the feeling that I'm vital, that I matter on my own and not because of what others think. — Lindsey Leavitt

President Oliver, stop staring at my sister and get on the float before I assassinate your butt! Ginnie yells. — Lindsey Leavitt

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go. — Caroline Leavitt

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?' — Caroline Leavitt

I am totally and completely addicted to movies. Jeff, my husband and I, watch movies every night and go out to the movies constantly. — Caroline Leavitt

We're all messed up," I said. "I think life is just about finding the right people to be messed up with. — Lindsey Leavitt

My first husband was a serial cheater. — Caroline Leavitt

If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kids wandered around. Nobody knew what you were doing. — Caroline Leavitt

Oh, I've had terrible, terrible relationships! The fact that I ever got happily married to a great, normal man is kind of a miracle. — Caroline Leavitt

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands. — Caroline Leavitt

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity. — Caroline Leavitt

All you had of a person was what they showed you. — Caroline Leavitt

A true friend gives you exactly what you need, even if she has no idea why you need it. — Lindsey Leavitt

That's not him at all, just how you perceive him. — Lindsey Leavitt

Right. Like I have any plans of hanging out with Vampire Boy ever again. Schedule it in right after my lunch date with Lord Voldemort. — Lindsey Leavitt

People love stories. They need stories. — Caroline Leavitt

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. — David Leavitt

The dead can't change, but you can. — Caroline Leavitt

Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded. — Martine Leavitt

A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth. — Caroline Leavitt

I like to lie sometimes. You should know that about me. — Lindsey Leavitt

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock. — Caroline Leavitt

Hearts have more room than you think — Lindsey Leavitt

I hate to say it, but Mom is right. You can't stay mad in Disneyland. — Lindsey Leavitt

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy! — Caroline Leavitt

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. — Caroline Leavitt

Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props. — Lindsey Leavitt

STAY CLOSE TO THE CHEESE. — Lindsey Leavitt

I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie. — Caroline Leavitt

Papa loves you with a dying and infernal love," the youngest girl said.
"Undying," the eldest girl corrected. "And eternal. — Martine Leavitt

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples. — Martine Leavitt

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt

I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment. — Caroline Leavitt

I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true. — Martine Leavitt

Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie. — Lindsey Leavitt

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without. — Caroline Leavitt

Assume makes an ass out of you and me. — David Leavitt

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die. — David Leavitt

It is life that hurts you not death. — Martine Leavitt

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. — David Leavitt

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house. — Caroline Leavitt

There's nothing sweeter than sweat. — Lindsey Leavitt

Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself? — Caroline Leavitt

You can't trust a guy showing off more cleavage than you. — Lindsey Leavitt

I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly! — Caroline Leavitt

I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books. — Caroline Leavitt

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself. — Caroline Leavitt

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239 — David Leavitt

Life if freer once you are out of the cocoon. — Lindsey Leavitt

Remember that you don't have to forget what happened, but you can forget the pain. — Lindsey Leavitt

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth. — Harold Leavitt

My mother makes up for all shortcomings because she birthed Ginnie. I might not have loads of friends, but Ginnie is enough. More than enough. — Lindsey Leavitt

Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go. — Martine Leavitt

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul. — Martine Leavitt

I'm trying to abandon the present, but I don't even have the skills to master the past. — Lindsey Leavitt

I guess it's hard to be the villain without a hero. — Lindsey Leavitt

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody. — Caroline Leavitt

Annie Jump Cannon (left) and Henrietta Leavitt, whose unsung labours and incisive deductions made Hubble's breakthroughs possible. — Bill Bryson

I always write about the things that haunt me, the questions I have. — Caroline Leavitt