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.

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.