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Grace Was One Of Those Types Who Never Changed But Only Aged And Had No Apparent Expectations Or Ambitions Other Than The Wish That Her Life Should Remain The Same.

I Don't Like To Think Of Myself As A 'virgin'. I Prefer To Think Of Myself As 'sexually Incomplete'. You Know. Like I Haven't Finished The Course Yet.

I Know I'm Not A Wordsmith. And I Don't Write Poetry. Sometimes I Think I Should, Because It's Really Helpful. But I Always Wanted To Write Novels.

Thank Goodness For The First Snow, It Was A Reminder--no Matter How Old You Became And How Much You'd Seen, Things Could Still Be New If You Were Willing To Believe They Still Mattered.

When I Was 8, I Was Reading A Book In Which It Was Snowing. When I Looked Outside, I Expected There To Be Snow On The Ground. I Thought, "this Is The Most Powerful Thing I Can Do! I'm Going To Be A Writer."