I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.

There are a lot of things in the world that are a lot weirder than psychic abilities, that we accept as true.

... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.