As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

I don't write romance novels.

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Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?