Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

...when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.

You have the Best Of Me.