I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

Death means you are in the third person.

I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at all.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion