Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see how special you are, he isn’t good enough for you.

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.