Katie

“She had short curls and her face had so many wrinkles it looked as if someone had been trying to draw her for a very long time and every line put in had made the face more like her.”
― L.M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe

“Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men--that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.”
― Susan Fletcher, Shadow Spinner

“When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.”
― Cynthia Lord, Rules

“If I couldn't sleep, I could read.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted