She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.

I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically.

My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful.

If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.