As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
Everything that happens to you matters to me.
I screwed her over. I didn’t want to see her screwed over by someone else.
People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.
Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
I’ll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from ‘almost extinct’ to ‘not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.’ Will that make you happy?
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
My rapier wit hides my inner pain.
If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.
I like in books when we start the book and you really don’t know how it’s going to turn out.
Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.
You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.
For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that came before, to continue to improve and to become better as a writer and hopefully to have a long career .
In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn’t matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.
I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.