The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

We writers are resilient souls.

He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.

Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.