Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Pajamas are good for the soul.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

U will have success where you diligently labor

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.

Passion for God is not youth thing. It is a hunger thing.

We need a new government that works.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

High school and equality are forever incompatible.