I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

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

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.