Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem.

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single