You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!

I did a lot of research on a couple different things. One was, how do people handle hating themselves and hating others? And hatred is a secondary emotion, I think; it always springs from something else ... usually fear, that's probably what it is. So I looked a lot at that.

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.