Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.