Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

I want my name to mean me.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...