As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles.

It's important to be grateful for the gifts we have

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.

The answer is no, " said Melody firmly. “Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no.

Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.

To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

I was trying to get over you! And it didn’t work. I was meant to walk on this earth with only you, I was meant to give only you every piece of me. I don’t want anyone but you. I love you.

She doesn't trust easily, but when she does it's always with the devil himself.

You're such a dork.But I'm your dork.

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?

The sound of the headboard, that's motivation.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.