As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.

It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.