All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.