Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don’t let it stop you.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.

But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.

Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.

There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside" -Hanna