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

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 ….

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….

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….

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..

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

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

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

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….

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

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….

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

Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive - she had dated each of them a number of times….

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

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….

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..

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books.

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….

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

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

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