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

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

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

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

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