I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

Fear," she says, "is more powerful than pain.

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

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.

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS