That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

I wouldn't go that far. But I know my way around the kitchen. I make dinner every night.

Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.

There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.