You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.

What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.