“She lay awake at night, wondering what she ought to do. Life terrified her. She had a child's capacity for happiness, but also a child's fear, a child's inefficiency. When existence was a holiday, none could be more rapturously happy; but when there was business to be done, plans to be made, decisions taken, she was simply lost and terrified.”
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“...This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for "Are you fucking kidding me?”
― How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
― How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Seriously... I'm Kidding
― Seriously... I'm Kidding
“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
― Warm Bodies
― Warm Bodies
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