If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author.

Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.

It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.