But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

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

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

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.