He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story