Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to.

Very little in this world makes sense.

No wandering minds allowed.

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?