"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."

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I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings.

— Paulo Coelho