You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to sleepovers? More awkward. Braces? Awkward. Gain a lot of weight before you hit the growth spurt? Awkward. Frizzy hair, don't embrace the curls yet? Awkward. Try to straighten it? Awkward!So many phases!

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

I know what it's like to pine away for that summer romance you just can't get back.

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.