As a matter of fact, you know I am rather sorry you should see the garden now, because, alas! it is not looking at its best. Oh, it doesn't compare to what it was last year.

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his canvas dry.

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen - that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!... They found that the eclair contains everything my system lacks. So I take three a day and I feel like a new woman

And as for my poor Glubjullas, they never came up at all! . . . I can't think why, because I generally have great luck with my Glubjullas.

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and learned the scoring system. For 'November Blues,' I interviewed pregnant teens. I like to get up close and personal with the kids involved in the situations I write about.