I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.
Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?
For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?
I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.
I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.