Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.

Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome.Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth.Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.