But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.