A miracle came in the form of a doctor whom her mother knew. He put her in a roasting pan and placed her above a fire to keep her warm.

It was the flashing lights, and the noise of the machines, and the loud, loud music, all seeming to refract and contract around her, her eyes widening, her hair swooshing, her slow smile shining. She...

Maybe before you start flirting with boys and kissing boys and trying to date boys, you should know who you are and where you stand.

I don’t care anymore! I tried so hard! It’s like the more I keep tryin’ to be here the more people keep treating me like I don’t belong here!

And now,” Eric yelled into his mircophone, “we’re going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one’s for my girlfriend. We’ve been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true....

It’d felt good to be part of an “us,” with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.

I’ve never had any summer lovin’. And I’ve never had any school year lovin’, either. I’ve never had a boyfriend. I’ve never hooked up with a guy. And this morning, on my Internet browser, an...

You know you love him when you can’t sleep at night and get up early to talk to him the next morning.

It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of...

Just let it out.

It’s rather good to pretend to be normal with someone.

I didn’t like his tone. In fact I didn’t like boys’ tone when they knew they were hot and tried to be rude to girls because they knew they were hot.