“No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like.” ImaginationCreativityTheatreRealismWriting ProcessWriting StoriesParental Relationship Book:The Hypocrite Source: The Hypocrite
“The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them.” CareRelationshipsIronyFamily RelationshipsSelf InterestMoral ObligationConditional Love Book:The Hypocrite Source: The Hypocrite
“In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concern him.” InspirationCreativityLimitsTheatreFamily RelationshipsBased On Real EventsStory Telling Book:The Hypocrite Source: The Hypocrite