A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Not others. What Jesus challenges us to do is to let go of the wrong done to you personally, not the wrong done to someone else. But most Christians incorrectly assume that this means that being a good christian means forgiving all sins, and the sinners.