They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

The rules are very strict.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.