I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked back and forth at Reynie and Constance, searching their expression for signs of delight. "You gave yourselves a name?" asked Constance. Now it was Kate's turn to be baffled. "You didn't? How can you have a team without a name?

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.