But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy..

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile..

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much..

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was,….

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates ….

Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They….

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them..

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter..

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet..

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel..

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the t….

I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don….

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative..

Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Lik….

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pron….

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection..

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body..

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave..

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences..

She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement..

When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was….