So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.