I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.

I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything—" "It's called a friendship.

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

We can all be beautiful girls.

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.