Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.

But nobody can run from their own demons.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.