The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling. ("The Wide Net")
You are a story worthy of being told, A person made to be loved, With a life meant to be lived.
Cassie - She loved reading romances - contemporary stuff. She wasn't into fantasy. No fairytale princess and prince stories. No vampires. No werewolves. No immortal fae.
When you end a chapter in your book of 'Wrong Men,' don't close the book of your love story, just turn the page.
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.
Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.
Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.
The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.
Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.
There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.
When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life
Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
