It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted positions. The dark continued to breathe. The breath of the tower lifted her clothing like the flaps of a tent, and sounded in her ears like falling snow. It's the wind coming through the double shutters, Devnee told herself. But how could the wind come through? There were glass windows between the inside and outside shutters. Or were there?The windows weren't just holes in the wall, were they?What if there was no glass? What if things crawled through those open louvers, crept into the room, blew in with the cold that fingered her hair? What creatures of the night could slither through those slats?She had not realized how wonderful glass was, how it protected you and kept you inside. She knew something was out there.
Caroline B. Cooney
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But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
young-adult young-adult-fiction horror
People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong.
time
dark glass vampire scary tower windows
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
weapon life people religion
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
life
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.
reading fun
I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
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