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We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin ...more

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I change the world, the world changes me.

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I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twilight, and they would say, oh, but the heroine, sh...more

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What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, som...more

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I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

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I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

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As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure," Petra said.

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One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other ...more

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No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them ...more

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Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them...more

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Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. I...more

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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with t...more

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I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

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I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.

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I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.