If you aren’t any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

I made promises to you that I’m not sure I can keep.

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

Victoria closes her eyes, breathing in the familiar scent, and for a moment it’s as if they’ve never been apart. They’re still Vixen and Cassandra, summer sisters forever. The rest is a mistake, a crazy...

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

Snoring keeps the monsters away.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices-and all because of fear.

Do you think you can wait – because I don’t want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don’t want to hurt you…not ever…

That’s not a bad word…hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn’t.

Sex is a commitment…Once you’re there you can’t go back to holding hands…and when you give yourself both mentally and physically…well, you’re completely vulnerable.

hi I hope u want to be my friends

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They’re probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It’s true that we are more open than our...

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

You’ve got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship....

The truth will make you odd.

Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?”I’m not sure… you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be...

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.

A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.

Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where.

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life...

…this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret.

…love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.