Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.