You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.

People always ask, "How do you get in the mind of the teen reader?" I think all human beings have these common threads. We struggle with the same things. We desire love and attachment. We have to sort out how much we want to be attached and be independent, how we manage need and being needed and being hurt. These are things that begin when we're - how old? Then in those teen years we start to really feel them.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

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.

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

People are secretive when they have secrets.