Helen T-B

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Go away," he said, hardly lifting his mouth from hers. "Go home!"
"It's too late," she whispered. "Can't you see, it's too late...”
She held on to his neck like a mermaid pulling a man to his doom.”
― Lara Blunte, The Last Earl

“That's my Kate! Who knew I would come to cherish even your horrible faults? I gather, then, that you'll never say you love me?"
She shrugged. "Perhaps."
"All right. But, my love, if you decide to, try to say it before you're an old hag, or I might not even look up from the newspaper.”
― Lara Blunte

“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft