“Life's like a roller coaster till it drops, but what should I scream for? This is my theme park.”

“Music is like a journey that never ends”

“Westering's died out, Jody.”

“If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.”

“Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was the only way to carve a voice out of the air and have others hear it.”

“When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.”

“Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life”