It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.