People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

I didn't humiliate him by pointing it out because that's not how you treat friends. You don't judge them. You don't humiliate them. I bet he's been judging me all along.

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.