You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

To be rather than to seem.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.