JENNIFER ESTEP: ELEMENTAL ASSASSIN

“My name is Gin, and I kill people.”

MOIRA YOUNG: BLOOD RED ROAD

“We’re on our own. An I feel calm. It seems crazy … but I’m calm. Because now I see what I gotta do. An what I ain’t gotta do, which is waste time thinkin that anybody’s gonna help us. That somebody’s gonna come along an rescue us. I cain’t count on nobody but me.”

CARRIE RYAN: THE DEAD-TOSSED WAVES

“Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.” 

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (JOHN GREEN)

“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.”

JOHN GREEN

Hank, before I move forward with this discussion, I should acknowledge that as a child I was an inveterate liar… As opposed to now, when I am a novelist.”