I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.