I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

No. Not really. A weapon didn’t come to an agreement with the hand that held it.

It’s a bomb. Just like you.

Desire and dread lay right next to each other in his heart, each sharpening the other.

Hours took as long as they needed.

Adam Parrish – magician and puzzle, student and logician, man and boy.

It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar – maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless – and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

It’ll be OK. I’m ready. Blue, kiss me.

The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can’t both win.