Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.

My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.