I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Sin has progressed and gained momentum

You can't solve problems with the same thinking that caused them.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.