8 Quotes by Melissa Pritchard

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 . . .

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 life or as difficult or thorny.

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.

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.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

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.