You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.