What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.