He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

I see all of them. All the colors.

I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.