Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.