The best way to die is when your living

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get it back, like a stone thrown down a well. But it was like the water at the bottom of the well, there when you can't even see it, shifting in the dark.

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.