A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

I'll cook the water.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy

I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and they didn't seem to make check boxes for whatever it was that I had grown up into. I definitely explore that a lot in my novels.

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.