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Try a little tenderness.
Because love, love never finishes.
It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
What brings two people together anyway?
You were never what I wanted to forget.
don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
he's a story i want to know from page one
I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.
My whole life has been one big broken promise.
Some people come into your life and leave a mark.
Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.
Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.
We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.
It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.
Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.
I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.
He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.
And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.
I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.
Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.
Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.
the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.