Lauren Myracle
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.Collection: Knowledge
Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.Collection: Cool
I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.
Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.
Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.
Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.
God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.
I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.
When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.
I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.
What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.
Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.
Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.
You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!Collection: Funny
We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.Collection: Mistake
I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.Collection: Funny
If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.Collection: Music
We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.Collection: Mistake
Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.Collection: Drama
Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.Collection: Bucks
Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?Collection: Mean
Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!" Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored... maybe I'm lonely?Collection: Lonely
Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.Collection: Mind
zoegirl: have u named the chicks? SnowAngel:yes, but i keep getting them mixed up. so now i call all of them "squishy." they're the collective squishy. zoegirl: *r* they squishy? SnowAngel: when you squeeze them,yes. but not in a yucky way. SnowAngel: they're growing on me, the little squishies. altho 1 of them pooped on my pillow. zoegirl: u let them on your bed? SnowAngel: they like it when i bounce them.Collection: Bed
You know, this technology that we have, and the Internet and Twitter and Facebook - I get so many of those emails that talk about hard times that kids have gone through, how books have helped them, but also happy times.Collection: Book
I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.Collection: Like Being Alone
Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.Collection: Men
If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.Collection: Mind
But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.Collection: Live In The Present
Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade." "I don't know," I say. "But weren't you there when he came to the office?" Peyton says. "The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.Collection: Office
If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.Collection: Girl
It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.Collection: Kids
I've written a lot of novels for teens and tweens ... but I'd never really tackled the North Carolina side of me. And it's so strong and so important, and yet I hadn't acknowledged it. And so one of the things I wanted to do in "Shine" is take that on.Collection: Strong
I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.Collection: Girl
Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.Collection: Running
You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.Collection: Book
What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.Collection: Ego
Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.Collection: Girl
You shоuld eat а waffle! Yоu саn't bе sad іf уоu eat а waffle!Collection: Waffles
Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.Collection: Problem
I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.Collection: World
Curse false-hand-holding boys!Collection: Boys
Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.Collection: Powerful
She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls she's chosen to eat with. Why? I have no clue, and I really don't want to spend my time worrying about it. But my brain pushes at the question anyway. Why are people aloof? Because they don't want to let others in. Why don't they want to let others in? Well, sometimes because they're shy, and sometimes because they're convinced of their own superiority. But those aren't the only reasons. Sometimes it's because thay have something to hide.Collection: Girl
Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!Collection: Live Your Life
There's something strange about this big pink bunny.Collection: Bunnies
So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.Collection: Sadness