“She had read enough about teenagers to understand you couldn't confront them directly. You couldn't even agree with them. The best strategy was to feign indifference to whatever wrong direction they were headed in, then plop in little facts, like Alka-Seltzers, round innocuous comments, let those sink in, take slow, antidotal effect . . .” ParentingTeenagers1999O Henry MemorialSalve Regina Book:Disappearing Ingenue Source: Disappearing Ingenue
“Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.” SeemsRomancePowerfulFantasyNovelFemaleRomantic LoveRomance Novel Author:Melissa Pritchard
“A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.” HeartRealSometimesStoriesRomanceCertainResultsLove StoryYieldReal LoveAmbiguityExhausting Author:Melissa Pritchard
“I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.” WritingBelieveKindStoriesRomanceI BelieveLove StoryKinds Of Love Author:Melissa Pritchard
“All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.” ArtFormLiteraturePrayerBehindsArt IsActiveTheologyLuminousGreat Literature Author:Melissa Pritchard
