It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

The gun goes off. I fall.

That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?

Honesty leads to peace.