Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.