Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

It’s amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, defeat, friendship, fatigue, elation… they’re all there, but only to the person who’s worn the uniform

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

I’ve run my whole life – for more than exercise, for mental health.

It’s easy to look back and see it, and it’s easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don’t look beneath the surface until it’s too late.

—No hay nada como una mujer de cabeza fuerte para hacerte feliz de estar vivo.

One’s character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can’t swim back.

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of...

What I’m expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one’s universe, then I was well on my way.

I operate under the assumption that people don’t notice the good in me. That’s just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get...

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while, you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever...

Mirando atrás hacia segundo grado, me gusta pensar que era por lo mejor en parte la curiosidad científica lo que me hacía perseguir es beso, pero para ser honesta, eran probablemente más esos ojos azules.

I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It’s a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on...

…Next time you’re faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Lo que le hizo a mi corazón era puro, una magia inexplicable.- Juli

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

You can’t dwell on what might have been…and it’s not fair to condemn him for something he hasn’t done.

All of a sudden I didn’t fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home…and every time I turned around, another person I’d known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like...

You can’t be preachy – kids are allergic to messages.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,’ he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is...

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I’m crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler...

Don’t even try to talk to me when I’m watching the moon. That’s my moon, baby.

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that’s exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it...

You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a...

There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by...

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I’m on the creative end of things, I’m discovering that they’re even...

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

Words can’t fix my life.Words can’t give me a family.Words can’t do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don’t know squat.