It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.