Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy an 'undone' book so the hard part is making it a book that at least ten other people want to pay for to read.

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.