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

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

We Pisces, we're a special breed.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?