"Summer Sisters" was actually was a huge influence on "Girls" because it was the first thing I ever consumed that sort of looked at the way that female friendship can be glorious and can be complicated and can be so like a worse betrayal than something romantic and it just showed these archetypes of femininity than totally sort of individuated them and exploded them.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.