I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.

I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.