And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go into a 7-11 and check out the Playmate of the Month, but you don't want your kids to know about death. You don't want your kids to know about disfigurement. You don't want 'em to know about creepy things because it might warp their little minds.

JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.