I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.

She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.