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my favorite book on writing says about how to end a story: make it unpredictable but also inevitable.
“I have no idea what you really look like. But I still know you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve never seen”
When you live for stories, when you spend so much of your time immersed in careful constructs of three and five acts, it sometimes feels like you’re just stumbling through the rest of life, trying to divine meaningful narrative threads from the chaos.
Fiction is there when real life fails you. But it’s not a substitute.
‘Sometimes all we have is the knowledge that something extraordinary exists in the universe, even if we can’t be the ones to claim it. Sometimes that has to be enough,’ ”
