If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

Verbs. All of them tiring.

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.