On top of the good was a hideously ugly bronze statue in the modern style. The statue was of a couple, dressed in togas, wrapped in an embrace. Cupped in their hands was a piece of fruit. I couldn’t b...
Life is not a romance novel
I think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't act on it, you'll never meet anyone else. You will, j...
I hope you’re not planning on kicking me, he said,not even bothering to look up from his book, as hardas you did those doors.
Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?
Cementerio El Encinal meant Cemetery of Many Oaks (I'm taking Spanish so that when Jesse and I have kids, I'll understand what he's saying when he yells at them in his mother tongue).
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.
However much they’re paying teachers these days, it is not enough. Middle-schoolers are animals.
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
There's no such thing as crazy. There's no such thing as normal, either.
The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.
KM: Yes. Mrs. Lopez, she's human. And you know, clearly, she'd like people to show some appreciation for her hard work. But if people just, you know, take her pie and don't even say, Hey, nice pie, th...
Jesse, you're not going to lose me. I had the situation totally under control. Sort of. But I have to say that after so many years of you keeping your feelings for me hidden out of propriety, it's rea...
It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.
It wasn't just that Mr. Beaumont and his creepy staring was freaking me out. And it wasn't that my dad's warning was ringing in my ears. My mediator instincts were telling me to get out, now. And when...
Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel on, since he was right-I never back up my computer's hard driv...
Douglas has more books- and comic books- than anyone I know. Still, if you wanted to borrow one, and took it down off the shelf and forgot to mention it to him, Douglas would notice right away it was...
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
This was very exciting. I'd never had two boys get into a fight over me before. The fact that one of the boys was my stepbrother, however, and held about as much romantic appeal for me as Max, the fam...
So take my advice: whatever you do? Don’t blink