It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to.” Halley: “The what?” Macon: “The Jedi Mind Trick.” He looked at me. “Didn’t you ever see Star Wars?

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.