I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.

How come you forget English when you swear?

Nature can blow me.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised” – Dr Barlow.

Nature didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a reservation, worshipping a bunch of bogus gods.

The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.

Sometimes I think I’m nothing but what other people have done to me.

She imagines herself as the long-dead Descartes, staring into his fireplace and building a world in his own mind.

They broke things.