My best friend is an author. And a dang good one at that. I feel incredibly privileged to get to be her wanna-be editor. There's something about grammar that moves me, haha.
But what I really want to write about it is the power of words. How one little sentence, words strung together just right, can move the soul. There is something powerful in a phrase that rings true with the soul. When characters, who have become living, breathing souls to us, have incredible moments of vulnerability, rawness, and authenticity. Not only do we love them all the more for it, but we love ourselves more, too. Sometimes it's the way something is phrased that puts into words the things in our hearts. And sometimes it is their words that put into understanding what a loved one has been trying to tell us. And all of a sudden, we believe. We trust. That what is real on paper is also real in life. That we really are loved, or special, or needed. That we really do make a difference or are capable. That we really are good people.
And that makes me love that book, those characters, all the more.
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