I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.