Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.