The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.