“You can’t be a bad girl, unless you actually do something bad."-Megan Barnett”

“Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright”

“Never do bad toward other people, unless you want bad possibly done to you”

“I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.”

“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”

“There’s nothing you can’t do if you want it bad enough.”