What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.