Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.