My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

I write a thousand words a day.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.