You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

I can be around kids if I need to be.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.