The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to admire) is about love and death, while mere popular fiction like this is about sex and violence. One reader's sex, alas, is another's love; and one's violence, another's death.

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.