I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'

There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.