Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

What is a scene? a) A scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the Aristotelian unities of time and place-this stuff goes waaaayyyy back). b) A scene starts in one place emotionally and ends in another place emotionally. Starts angry, ends embarrassed. Starts lovestruck, ends disgusted. c) Something happens in a scene, whereby the character cannot go back to the way things were before. Make sure to finish a scene before you go on to the next. Make something happen.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.