Your word is your bond, you do what you say you're going to do.
You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.
I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.
I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
My stories are character driven.
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
Glances are the first billets-doux of love.
Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.
We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time. " "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.