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Ice-blue Eyes
✦ She had never seen eyes like his before: not sky-blue or ocean-blue, but the sharp, frost-bitten blue of rivers locked beneath winter ice.
✦ They were beautiful eyes, terrifyingly so: a glacial blue that felt ancient somehow, as if winter itself had decided to stare back at her. ✦ She should have looked away, but his ice-blue eyes were so pale they looked carved from frozen light, and she felt herself trapped in them all the same. ✦ His gaze lifted to meet hers, and his eyes were the kind of pale winter-blue that made her think of frost and cold mornings. ✦ His eyes were a startling shade of winter blue, cool and brilliant as sunlight striking a frozen lake. ✦ His eyes were the pale blue of frost on winter mornings. ✦ She told herself it was only surprise that held her still, not the impossible shade of his eyes—a cold, luminous blue that seemed almost unreal. ✦ His gaze pinned her where she stood, ice-blue eyes so pale they seemed forged from winter itself. ✦ He watched her in silence, ice-blue eyes pale enough to be carved from a glacier's heart. ✦ His stare slid over her slowly, ice-blue eyes like shards of a frozen sea—sharp enough to cut. ✦ His eyes were ice-blue in the cruellest sense—distant, frigid, and capable of freezing anything they touched. ✦ He looked at her with a predator's stillness, ice-blue eyes glowing faintly beneath the shadows, like twin winter stars. ✦ She had never seen eyes like his: ice-blue and almost translucent, as if frost had settled beneath his skin instead of blood.
Forugh Farrokhzad, from Let Us Believe In the Beginning of the Cold Season; "On Loving,"
Writing Tips
Punctuating Dialogue
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➸ “This is a sentence.”
➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.
➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”
➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”
➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”
➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”
➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.
“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.
“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”
➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”
➸ “Hey!” she shouted. “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”
However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!
➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.
If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)
➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“
“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.
➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.
➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”
➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.
“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”
➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.
“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”
until you learn the lesson
“The fastest way to kill a relationship is to keep score… Who did more. Who gave more. Who’s owed what. Relationships aren’t a scoreboard. They’re a connection.” - Dean Graziosi
If this resonates, you’ll find more here →The Scorecard: Keeping Track of Who Loves More
In my experience, this is usually a symptom of something larger. "Score keeping" can emerge when one person in the relationship starts feeling like they're always doing more or giving more and it can be a sign that the relationship is already struggling. It often stems from a lack of communication and compromise. Over time, resentment can slowly build, leaving someone feeling unheard, underappreciated, and uncared for.
Of course, this is not for all cases. But in many relationships, score keeping does emerge because one partner is feeling an ongoing imbalance.