After drinking eight cups in a row, then walking home from school, then waiting for the elevator, then digging out my key and unlocking the door to our apartment, then dashing down the hall to the bat...
Snoring keeps the monsters away.
In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.
I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular.
You've never been in love, she said. You don't understand.If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities, Caitlin said, Then I haven't missed anything.
The truth will make you odd.
Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?
In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in n...
Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands
It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.
Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are.
I love you, Michael Wagner. Forever? he asked. Forever, I said.
I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very spe...
I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you t...
It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.
I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep. None of it has anything to do with you. It's just that I don't know what to do now. You must be thinking what a rotten person I am. Well, believe m...
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the...