Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.

I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.

the next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.