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I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

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The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door...more

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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

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Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.

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Too many locks, not enough keys.

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I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a differen...more

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I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that ma...more

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She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

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Once you love something, you always love it in someway. You have to. it's like, part of you for good.

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So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

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It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especi...more

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If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved som...more

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He grinned again. We'd only been seeing each other for a few weeks now, but this easy give-and-take still surprised me. From that very first day in my...more

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It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.