When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

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

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.