Quotes from Sarah Mlynowski

I'm up at 8:30 every morning, and I write from about 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. - with some breaks, of course. I really try to see writing as a career that I turn off when my husband comes home from work. Otherwise, writing could very easily become all-consuming.

A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

You don't really have to fallin love with him, but he's not a terrible option for a fling. As long as you use a condom. Two condoms, even.

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves —" "I'm going to

again, right? But how will they know to save us? Hmm. Yopopa's supposedly a genius. That's probably

Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

We find our way to the marble kitchen, open the fancy silver fridge, and serve ourselves a heaping plate of coleslaw and chicken fingers. "Mmm," I say. Prince makes sloppy eating sounds. "Delicious," says Jonah. He smiles at Frederic. "Tastes just like frog legs." I laugh so hard I snort coleslaw out of my nose.

A teenage girl wearing a loose blue dress is sitting in a wooden chair with her back to me. Her beautiful, dark brown hair is pulled back in a braid that trails all the way down her back, over the chair, and out the window.

filling every space of the room. The piles of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, sapphires

her horse, Basil.

She named her horse Basil? That's the worst name for a horse I ever heard.

No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

It's just not fair. And things need to be fair. Judges make things fair, and so will I.

Let's call the prince —" "Ruff, ruff!" "Pickles!" Jonah cries gleefully. My brother is so weird.

She looks at me strangely. "Um, no. I'm frozen.

You'll get hurt!" But she doesn't listen. She jumps straight out the window. "Wheeee!" she yells as she flies down. She lands on the Frau-Monster, knocking her down, and then bounces into the thorns by the tower as though Frau were a trampoline.

We keep a safe distance. We only whisper. We duck into the shadows whenever Cinderella turns around. We're really good at this sneaky thing. I bet we could be spies when we grow up. We'd be the cool brother-and-sister team that gets to go to exotic

keeping a positive outlook does wonders for your health.

Do you think she's still here?" Jonah asks.

We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behaviour. But that's not the same thing.

Couldn't he have checked his shoelaces BEFORE entering a dark, super-creepy cave?