You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.

But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship