I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'