Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.