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1 " I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the princess.''She didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on their own. "
― Pat Murphy , The Wild Girls
2 " I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn’t find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself. "
3 " I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth. "
4 " Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy. Because all the other things you could believe hurt too much. "
5 " You are afraid of us. You are afraid because you don't know what we might do. "
6 " Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right. "
7 " But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I feel about something until I write a story about it. I figure it out while I'm writing the story. "
8 " I wasn't wearing war paint. But that didn't matter. I didn't need war paint. I was a different person than I had been, back then. "
9 " We talked about each story for a while, and then Verla talked about heroes and villains. 'Nobody is all good or all bad,' she told us. 'The world is painted in shades of gray. "
