You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.

If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can't put your best foot forward.

Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

I have a billion what-ifs and no way forward.

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

'Pretty Little Liars,' you know, it's a teen show that grew to be something bigger. I think you had girls from ages 7 to, like, 20 watching the show, and that was the predominant audience. Then it grew to be for girls, boys, men, women, people who are 7 to 35. I think that's crazy.