It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

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.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.

“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.