But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was a door. With Kirsten, it was the front one to our house, through which she was always coming in or out, usually in mid-sentence, a gaggle of friends trailing behind her. Whitney’s was the one to her bedroom, which she preferred to keep shut between her and the rest of us, always.

There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.

And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.