This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.
I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.
When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.
I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.
Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.
She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.
Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.
It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.