Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are.