Is this true or only clever?
You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand. " "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best. . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.
I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
Family. . . a group experience of love and support.
Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different and often strike out against them in ignorance. But society is really starting to wise up at last as more enlightened generations emerge.
Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.