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

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

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

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

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