Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can’t sell him on your body, you’d better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

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

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.