When the right moment appears, the key is to not let it pass.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.

I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.

We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.