Melody Carlson
Melody Carlson
Melody Carlson is an accomplished Christian author for children, pre-teens, youth, and adults, with sales totaling more than two million. Some of her most popular works are the Diary of a Teenage Girl books seriesand the True Colors book series. She captures the realism of teenage life today and the difficulty that comes with being a Christian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 March 1956
CountryUnited States of America
avoid helped suppose
I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.
running fear winning
But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.
girl teenage teenage-girl
Shut off the internal bashing.
girl teenage habit
It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.
taken mad waiting
It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.
beautiful mean matter
It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?
home mean thinking
Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.
christian mom environment
I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.
teenager heart these-days
Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.
heart laughing dying
To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.
book swimming rivers
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
way our-lives
God planned for our lives to connect. Let's make sure we keep it that way.
average new-day hopeful
I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.
girl jealous guy
Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.