This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.