Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay

When you go, would you ever turn to say, "I don't love you like I did yesterday.

And what's with the shirt? You think you're in Fiji?" "It's like being on vactaion. all of the time.

I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

Playing in front of millions of people erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me.

I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something

Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book.