I’m in a state of confusion about my encounter.

Too many coincidences for ithis to be anything else but Fate….

I’m going to get to the bottom of this mystery before it totally obsesses me.

This is impossible, I tell myself. Then, I begin to shake.

I'm still here for Lily—other than that, I'm scarcely alive.

Rage burned inside him. He'd kill the woman and have the man

I was trying to control my present by manipulating my past

The wind rattles the window through the lonely watch I keep

We were opposed by dark forces greater than us

I don't think these dark forces are mediaeval fantasies…

This sordid affair has made me more sensitive to others’ feelings

I was a victim, but in a way had been a manipulator myself

What Jeanne did next really unnerved me and I was totally unprepared for it.

Knowing her cost me more than I could ever have foreseen…

100 degrees in the shade and everything’s coming apart… Including my world

We're all ruined in some way―clinging to the wreckage

Life is an art, and the apprenticeship by which we learn is suffering

The kind of qualities that once made me a successful writer were stirred up inside me once more.

My workshops are hollow because I recycycle advice I no longer believe

I was ready to resign as writer-in-residence before I even began