A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.

I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.