I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.

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

I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.