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

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.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

"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.

I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.