the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk..

Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end..

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading "Gossip Girl.".

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd mod….

When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... w….

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!.

I don't eat chicken abortions!.

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot..

oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone..

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you.

You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all ha….

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she kn….

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore..

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter..

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as….

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!.

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything..

I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways for people to die. I think I'm just very twisted!.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything..

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay..

the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion..