What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.