What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.