“I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.” WritingYearsKindLongTwoStoriesFightingFoundDarkLossSimpleBoysRegretCoupleComputerPagesSittingBetrayalTalesSatShort StoryNostalgicKites Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.” TwoIdeasMatterHappensUniverseEnergyCausesDarkThings HappenNo IdeaTwo ThingsDark MatterDark Energy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux.” PeopleThinkingChildrenTwoKidsDarkPerformingRisingTigersTap DanceDixieDespereauxOverachieving Author:Kate DiCamillo