You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

Says the girl with no thyme.