I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

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.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them

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.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.