Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.
He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.
I never wanted you to get hurt, but i wanted to take you from him.
I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.
And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.