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I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

"Great Male Protagonists We Wouldn’t Want to Be Friends With" by Claire Fallon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2013.

Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.

Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1036, Simon and Schuster

If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

"Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair". Book by Anne Lamott, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2013.

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.13, Macmillan

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.25, Penguin