"Romance goes like this:
Boy gets girl.
Boy loses girl.
Boy gets girl again.
The end.
It can't be any other way."
— Nora Raleigh Baskin (Anything But Typical)

"When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all."
— Nora Raleigh Baskin (Anything But Typical)

"" Romance goes like this:
Boy gets girl.
Boy loses girl.
Boy gets girl again.
The end.
It can't be any other way."

-Anything but Typical"
— Nora Raleigh Baskin (Anything But Typical)

""All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.""
— Nora Raleigh Baskin (Anything But Typical)

"These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were."
— Nora Raleigh Baskin (What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows)

""Old elbows," she told me. "A woman's elbows always give her age away.""
— Nora Raleigh Baskin (What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows)