“Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.”

“What the hell, I decided.”

“What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.”

“I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.”

“When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing”

“Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.”

“No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess.”