You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.