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The Strand prides itself for its '18 miles of books,' and they are not kidding - that store goes on for da-a-a-a-ys. There are carts outside with dollar books, all sorts of fun merchandise inside, and an extensive selection of reduced priced books. If you're looking to buy a $30 hardcover for $20, The Strand is your new best friend.
Adam Silvera
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I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as if their ending isn't genuine to their actual trials.
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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
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There will be opportunities for hope and happiness, and happiness will return to your life, but you will always feel that loss if that person really meant that great a deal to you.
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My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.
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For me, I remember being 19 and coming out as bi to all of my friends. I'd had girlfriends, and all of these experiences and such, and then, as I got older, I started identifying as gay.
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When you're overthinking a thought like the way I do, I can get completely pulled away from something I'm in the middle of because my thought channel just won't help me get from point A to point B without any difficulty.
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My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particularly difficult time with my family.
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Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
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I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.
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I'm building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like 'happily ever after,' but I don't think that's me.
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I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.
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