Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.