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I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as if their ending isn't genuine to their actual trials.

Being more happy than not helps you get up every day.

I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.

'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.

I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.

Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'

I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.

It wasn't until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller for five years and have been reviewing YA novels for four years.

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.

When you're overthinking a thought like the way I do, I can get completely pulled away from something I'm in the middle of because my thought channel just won't help me get from point A to point B without any difficulty.

When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.

Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.

I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so supportive of me when I told them I was in the middle of my first book.

'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.

Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'

Sexuality is very fluid, but I never chose to be gay.