I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.

I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.

Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.