He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?