She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood.

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.