You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.