111 Quotes by Margaret Stohl

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Being poor doesn’t make anyone wonderful, just like being rich doesn’t.

I didn't feel very powerful. as a matter of fact, with every word, it got harder and harder to breathe. I couldn't pretend any longer, and now a great hopelessness rose inside me, an uncontrollable tide... and as it threatened to swallow me... I threatened to let it.

Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. "Mercy Lynne, you're cheatin' again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence.""I'm itchin' ta have some a that white cake.""That's not how you spell it." At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board. "There's no T in itchin'." Or not.

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.

There are reasons you don't live with your parents once you've grown up. The criminal should never return to the crime scene. All the evidence is still there.

When I... was little... I thought... No I knew my family wasn't perfect... But I thought love was.

When you're with your family, the only fights you want to be having are -- yanno -- with your family. But things don't always work out that way... not when you're me.