But It Was Important To Simply Be

It's Hard To Be Nice When The Rest Of The World Is So Mean.

As If At The Age Of Eighteen Life Already Sucked Beyond Any Hope Of Improvement.

I'm Incredibly Flattered When People Tell Me That My Books Helped Them Through High School. Because Of My Own Experience, The Thought That Something I Wrote Might Help Someone Who Felt The Way I Did When I Was A Teen...that's Huge. It Awes Me.

If You Try Anything, If You Try To Lose Weight, Or To Improve Yourself, Or To Love, Or To Make The World A Better Place, You Have Already Achieved Something Wonderful, Before You Even Begin. Forget Failure. If Things Don't Work Out The Way You Want, Hold Your Head Up High And Be Proud. And Try Again. And Again. And Again!

If This Was My Instinct Talking, I Didn‟t Want To Hear What It Was Saying.