It was wrong. But it was worth it.

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone.

—Ann Brashares in Girls In Pants

Shy" was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. "Snotty" was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

—Ann Brashares in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?

—Ann Brashares in Girls In Pants

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people. Once you knew them you mostly forgot about it.

—Ann Brashares in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

But like everything else, love changed.

—Ann Brashares in The Last Summer

He was the worst kind of wrong. He was so wrong it felt right, and that made me feel completely out of control.

—Becca Fitzpatrick in Silence

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

—Charles Wadsworth

The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller