When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

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

It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.