This is what she wrote. "My first day at Radcliffe College was of great interest.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

This is what she wrote as a young girl: "Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist I sit alone and wait at life's shut door.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

She says,"The theme of this album is finding what's true about you and your life, and defending it and valuing it above all else.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

What I really love about New Moon is you see this girl really build herself back up and by the time she makes the sort of rash decision to spend eternity with a vampire, you believe her.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23