Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
~ Amy Waldman
Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.
Sorrow can be a bully.
Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
