I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look.

What are you most scared of, Caitlin? What I can do to you, or how I make you feel?

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that!

Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler.

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.

I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.

Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.