Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too.

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

That,” she says, “was never here before.

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.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life