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“...sometimes relationships don't die. They just don't grow. Kept from sunlight, from nourishment, they never flourish.”
― The Roughest Draft
― The Roughest Draft
“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“But with Katrina—was it romantic when you instinctively knew someone’s very existence fascinated you, made you grateful? Finding it romantic would be missing the point, like valuing the sun because it was bright. I’m glad for the light, but really, I’m grateful for the fact it sustains life on Earth. Not that Katrina sustains my life on Earth. I— No. Inelegant metaphor. It’s over with Katrina.”
― The Roughest Draft
― The Roughest Draft
“We've written the rough draft of our love together, the draft with loose ends, unfinished edges, mistakes every other page. But every writer knows there's magic in revision, where your work changes from a manuscript into a book. Where intentions, emotions, missed connections coalesce into something complete. It's where what you mean to say becomes what you have said. The characters deepen, the details shine, the prose sparkles. Suddenly, from nothing, you find your story.”
― The Roughest Draft
― The Roughest Draft
“There's no truth to these pages, but the trick of fiction is to make you think there is. I let myself fall for it as often as I can.”
― The Roughest Draft
― The Roughest Draft
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