I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him down the hall in bed, propped on pillows, emailing me. "Hon,Enjoyed our gelato date the other night. I just want to say I'm proud of you for a lot of reasons. Also, I've attached a picture of my foot."He's such a weirdo goofball. I love him.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.