After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn’t stop her expectations from rising. She imagined herself transformed and beautiful, like Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, with her homemade dress and mysterious lace boots. She...

Dear Matthew-There’s one more thing I didn’t get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it is: I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been for a long time. This...

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn’t get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn’t want it to see.

This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.

Let’s don’t wait forever for our lives to start. Let’s begin them ourselves. Let’s be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

This is what we do, my mother’s life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.

Scratch a female inmate, I’ve discovered, and you’ll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they love me.”I don’t know if this was like that.”What happened?’He thought for a moment. ‘Well. I realized I loved her.’Hannah gasped. ‘Oh...

I’ve decided that it’s possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It’s sad, perhaps, but not tragic,...