Whatever CAN go wrong WILL go wrong.
What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.
We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
We all float down here.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There’s no feeling on earth like it.
Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
True love would never die.
Tough old world, baby. If you’re not bolted together tightly, you’re gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.
To write is human, to edit is divine.
Time heals all wounds.
Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There’s good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness toward terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.
There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.
