Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I’m not trying to overreact or anything but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free. My uterus is just going to come out between my legs and I’m going to look like I’m walking around with an enormous load in my pants.
If you’re writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there’s a good chance the words you write aren’t going to be the ones that end up on screen.
For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
Remember, if you don’t feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won’t either.
There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing by Phil Collins, and that’s how they knew it was time to call the ambulance.
I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she’d just admitted she’s a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.
Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What’s unnatural about that?
Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you’re heading for Awkward Avenue.
They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.
The first thing we did was change all the clocks so that her siblings thought it was bedtime, then put them to bed ignoring their plaintive protests that they were not tired. They wept themselves to sleep soon enough.
I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?
Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse’s dead, too.
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short. – Mitch Hertzog’s voice mail message.
And I’m sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.
If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn’t you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon.
I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I’ll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.
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, just at a time that’s more convenient for you.