I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.