We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

All I know is that I fell in love with you, and I've never been more frightened about anything in my entire life.

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.