If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

I think they have compatible silences.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.