It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.