The Human Heart Was Undeniably

I Always Loved Reading. Growing Up, My Favorite Book Was 'a Child's Garden Of Verses,' By Robert Louis Stevenson.

When I First Thought Of The Idea For 'sweet Valley High,' I Loved The Idea Of High School As Microcosm Of The Real World. And What I Really Liked Was How It Moved Things On From 'sleeping Beauty'-esque Romance Novels Where The Girl Had To Wait For The Hero. This Would Be Girl-driven, Very Different, I Decided - And Indeed It Is.

Another Funny Thing About Having Friends Was That They Expected Things Of You. They Made You Want To Not Be A Terrible, Awful, Execrable Person. They Made You Feel Worse When You Were One. It Was A Lot Easier Not To Have Any Friends.

Nature Compensates For Its Mistakes.

Humiliation, By The Way, Is A Truly Terrible Emotion. It's At The Bottom Of The Pile.