Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 31, 1978
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all….
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena ….
But things don't just fall apart. People break them..
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I ….
Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?.
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially ….
Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there..
There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you fr….
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down..
The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it..
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imaginati….
Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from….
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world..
Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time.
And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him….
Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a f….
They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn….
I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that ….
A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of Go….
I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to he….
In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite..