Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

I think that's why I wanted to write about seventh grade. I'd say seventh grade is a time when kids are really exploring a lot and becoming aware of the world around them in a deeper way. And they just have sort of have a wider appreciation of what's happening around them. They are seeing themselves from the outside more than they had before.

For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the capital M form of the word but I do hope it makes people ask themselves questions about what they think.

I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.