Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.
A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.
I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.