Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.