The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.

The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.