How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.
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My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.
Tags: mother, bird, you, me
I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?
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One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.
Tags: emotional, practice, will, never
I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running, not staying, but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.
Tags: young-adult, the-5th-wave, rick-yancey, quotes, inspirational, humanity, dystopian, cassie-sullivan, battlefield
But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.
Tags: light, hope, despair, darkness
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