I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl."

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.

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

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

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.

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle