The Roughest Draft
Emily Wibberley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“...sometimes relationships don't die. They just don't grow. Kept from sunlight, from nourishment, they never flourish.”
“We've written the rough draft of our love together, the draft with loose ends, unfinished edges, mistakes every other page. But every writer knows there's magic in revision, where your work changes from a manuscript into a book. Where intentions, emotions, missed connections coalesce into something complete. It's where what you mean to say becomes what you have said. The characters deepen, the details shine, the prose sparkles. Suddenly, from nothing, you find your story.”
“Never leaving someone isn't the same as loving them.”
“think it’s possible for people we love to quietly, even unknowingly, snap some tether holding us together.”
“...in the end, the best part of a love story isn't having it. It's getting to keep writing.”
“But with Katrina—was it romantic when you instinctively knew someone’s very existence fascinated you, made you grateful? Finding it romantic would be missing the point, like valuing the sun because it was bright. I’m glad for the light, but really, I’m grateful for the fact it sustains life on Earth. Not that Katrina sustains my life on Earth. I— No. Inelegant metaphor. It’s over with Katrina.”
“I want to say she's gorgeous. Heart-stopping. If I started, I don't know how I would stop. I've worked my entire adult life to marshal the English language into whatever I wanted. But were I try to capture Katrina with it, it would best even me.”
“was it romantic when you instinctively knew someone’s very existence fascinated you, made you grateful? Finding it romantic would be missing the point, like valuing the sun because it was bright. I’m glad for the light, but really, I’m grateful for the fact it sustains life on Earth.”
“There's not truth to these pages, but the trick of fiction is to make you think there is. I let myself fall for it as often as I can.”
“you can’t just pretend feelings that are inconvenient don’t exist,”
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