When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.
Tags: pain, love, joy, friendship

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Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
Tags: love, life, inspirational, hopelessness
They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.
Tags: friendship, books
You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.
Tags: time-passing, time
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
Tags: writing, reading, fictional-characters, blog
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
Tags: weapon, sex, peace, love, life, lesson, happiness, absence
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