“No one knew where I was, not a soul, and while I thought this was what I wanted, I realized, in the quiet of that room, that it was the scariest thing of all”
“I finally realized that what I wanted didn't exist where I thought it did.”
“I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all.”
“I just tried to put myself in her place and figure out what would be the scariest thing. If I thought I might be dying. And it was being alone' ... 'To me,' she said, 'the scariest thing is oblivion. Being, and then not being.”
“I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.”
“I hate the dark. It lets your mind imagine the scariest things hiding in it while in most cases there is nothing there.”