I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.