Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.