Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.