Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.

What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.