Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.