My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.
I donโt want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick โ even the bad ones โ so I repeat them often.