...you Don't Always Get What You Expect.

We Get Crazy When We Can't Make Things Be Like The World Tells Us They Are". She Looked Back Out The Window. "it Was That Way For Me And Your Brother, I Think. I Mean, How Could I Have Loved Him That Last Year? I Didn't Even Know Who He Was. He Was Way More Attracted To Drugs And Bikers And That Whole Lifestyle Than He Was To Me. But Somebody Told Me That If You Really Loved Somebody,you Stayed With Him No Matter What. You Had To Fight For Him." She Laughe. "hell, I Was Convinced.

And I Think If You're Going To Be With Somebody, You Owe It To Them To Show Yourself.

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

I Think The Value In Books Like Mine, And A Great Number By Other Talented Writers, Is In The Ability To Bring Dark Subjects Into The Open Where They Are Not So Dark, Where They Can Be Talked About And Considered By Teens And Adults Alike.

I Have Made A Career Of Creating Characters Who Fight School Authority And Chomp At The Bit To Get Out Into The 'real' World And Live Their Lives, Mostly Because That's The Kind Of Teenager I Was.