“I'd always avoided wearing white...my least favorite absence of color.”

“So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.”

“As his older sister, it was my job to lie to him in the name of easing his troubled mind.”

“ All of a sudden, inviting Jeremy up to my room seemed like a terrible idea. I wanted him too much. My desire for him was like a thing separate from me, a wild animal with a mind of its own, attacking the bars of the cage I kept it in, looking for a weak spot." from Struck”

“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.”

“A piece of advice: if you want to remain in control of a doomsday cult, don't give a date for the end of the world unless you're really, really sure it's going to happen. Being wrong tends to undermine your authority.”

“-You said this wasn't a cult.-Secret society. There's a difference.-Not from where I'm standing.-Then take a seat.”