There's hope around the corner.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.