When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about.

The world, right now, is only us.

scapegoat, n. I think our top two are: 1. Not enough coffee. 2. Too much coffee.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.