Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you..

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling..

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time..

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds..

Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the hab….

I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at m….

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house ….

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole..

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible..

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests ….

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible..

I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time..

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks..

Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp..

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I w….

You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough t….

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer..

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz..

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with thin….

The next level. As though dating were a computer game..

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been..