If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.