It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.

... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.

when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.

I love the structural part of the writing process.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.