It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.

Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her hooves pound a four-time rhythm instead of a three. But when Corr moves into a gallop, it's as if it's a gait that's just been invented, something so much faster than all the others that it should be called something else...Each stride feels like it takes us a mile. We'll run out of island before he runs out of speed. We're giants, on his back.

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.