When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.