“He understood the mind's pride, filleting, pinning down life. Understood taking apart, reassembling and labeling. To Understand was to control, to keep the terror of human insignificance at bay. It was routine to self-importance, this ability to kill and to… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
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… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
“He understood the mind's pride, filleting, pinning down life. Understood taking apart, reassembling and labeling. To Understand was to control, to keep the terror… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
“...I am discovering that it is truly a mistake--it may even be a moral wrong, in fact--to judge. Truth is too complex, too contradictory,… — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
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