A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.
In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.