Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.
When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.
Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.