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Review:marinahill says:
You silly woman. Not because this is over, because that makes me so mad, but because you are STILL doubting yourself. What is WRONG with you? This is the best bit of fluff that I've ever read and you're moaning about being miserable... always like to include a hint of angst, right?

I feel miserable myself - I didn't want this to end because it's just so beautiful... I consider what I think I know about love (an unrealistic, romanticised love) and it seems so ugly compared to how you express yourself. I recognise the feeling, the understanding about love here and you just put the words down as I could never express them. See here: Always, always yes because she is what makes yes irrefutable and questions statements and life melts into love and trust and the future becomes the present with her. - it's that feeling of doing anything, that anything is possible and it exists throughout this whole story. I'm a traditional romantic, this is food for starvation.

You've taken a simple concept, if you like, cliche in the fact that everyone tries to write about it, it seems to appear in ever story but never under the same mask and you have made it p e r f e c t. I'm not even joking, if this is what true love is like I don't know why I'm still sat here on not going off to find some of it myself. it wouldn't matter because dying of love, that wouldn't be so bad. You make me want to fall in love :P Maybe that's why I have fallen in love with you ... I mean this piece ;) ahahaha. Seriously, this is how all fluff should be written. It won't be, because there's never going to be another person who can write like you, or pull this off like you have, but maybe I can force you to write more like this.

. The moment that secures them together. Not a ring, nor a vow, nor a kiss but a book; words and pictures colliding and merging and matching. Completing. Silence has never felt so sharp, a knife edge grazing against her throat. This is the best bit of writing I've ever seen. It just sums up everything so beauitfully. Obviously I'm biased, books are my life, but not only did you sum up the magic of books but the way you described the silence! Perfect, perfect, perfect. I'll have to force myself not to use that metaphor. I want to steal it and pretend I'm amazing enough to have come up with it. Ha.

You know it just isn't FAIR for one person to hog all the talent. Every time I read something of yours I come away wanting to scrap everything I've ever written and at the same time, start writing until I can come up with something halfway as good as this. How more people haven't recognised your talent I will never ever understand, it's a crime.

I am justified in my rather scary (not nice at all) rage because you're making this end when the one thing I want more than anything is for it to continue. I know it can't, it's the author's choice and it has to finish some time, blah blah. But maybe write some one-shots in this style? And make me read them, you know what I'm like. Actually, knowing what I'm like should make you realise how much I love this story/fairytale. At least Dean and Daph got their happily ever after, unlike many of your other characters... no one died.

Oh and I realise this review is one big stupid ramble, but I feel like if I keep on typing the story doesn't have to be over yet. It only finishes once I leave my last review. Perhaps if I just forget to post it then it'll never be over? That could work... Or not. But seriously, consider writing more. Unless if you think it would ruin it (it won't) or you have nothing else to add (you do!). The customer is always right, and I'm the customer and I think we need to see more from you.

Okay, this is stupid rambling so I'll just stop because it's really now just about me and my stupid denial but I don't want this to be over -insert sad face-. I guess all there is left to say is thank you for writing this magnificent piece of prose and I lobe uou.

Marina ♥

xxx

Author's Response: After I've replied to this, it will be the first time since around March 2010 that I've had an empty unanswered review page. I would love to wait until Friday - until One Day's first birthday - to respond but I'm going to strike whilst I'm in the right mindset. Today, it's the 16th March 2011, 8 months after you wrote this. It made me cry then. It has made me cry every time I've tried to reply since and I am sure that as I make my way through it, my poor make-up will be ruined.

Before I start, I have to say that I love you. Without you, without any of your endless encouragement, I wouldn't have written this into a short story. I might not even have written the one-shot, or might have taken it down, or edited it so heavily that it would be beyond recognition, and that would - I can see now - have been so, so wrong.

Now, of course I'm still doubting myself. I wouldn't be me and you wouldn't be you if we didn't constantly moan about how awful we are even though we both know we're being ludicrous. However, you know me better than anyone on this site and yes, of course I had to include a bit of angst. It's in my blood.

I find it so funny when people talk about their views on love compared with this story. My views are so different to what I write; I don't believe - in my heart of hearts - that this is possible. I would love it to be. I think this is an old, distant dream that the realistic, rational side has beaten into the store cupboards of my imagination. It's a bit of a fairytale for me, even. I honestly don't think that I will ever find anyone who makes me feel like Dean makes Daphne feel or vice versa but that's okay. If I can make people believe it's possible, just for a moment whilst they read this, then my work is done.

I love the 'anything is possible' thread. I think that's one of the strongest themes that runs through it. It's all about what is and what isn't and the abstract becoming concrete. Dreams vs reality and tonnes of other things and how they both dreamed of something like this with perhaps the same skepticism as I take and have been proven wrong.

Don't take my word on what true love is like; if it's anything like this - even a fraction of it - I think I'd be pretty content.

I don't think I could ever write another couple with this style. It's forever enshrined in my mind as Dean and Daphne and even if I turned this into something original (which I won't but let's imagine), their faces wouldn't change in my head.

That book line is one of my favourites. I remember writing it, reading it back and thinking it was pretty perfect not just in terms of the phrasing but the idea, for both them and us. I'm glad you agree, however I put my foot down at you stealing it. You can have another metaphor. Go and pick.

Oh shut up. You're infinitely more amazing than I am and if you ever threaten to scrap any bit of your writing, I'll hunt you down, shave off that beard and force you to write until it grows back.

It really can't continue. I'd be pushing it. I like it as it is; it's complete and I'm leaving it there, which is why Silent Night is its own one-shot and not an added chapter to the end of this. I like having this story as it is without any embellishments. I don't want anyone to feel forced to read another moment just because it's attached to this couple, this storyline that I've invented for them. Perhaps you'll get another one-shot about Dean/Daph but it's a long way away.

My reply is just as much ramble. This story, I hope, will never end. I'm not taking it down any time soon and it shall be here for you whenever you want to read it. Writing more will ruin it. I don't have anything else to add. Use your imagination. It's infinitely more beautiful than mine.

I love you so much, my darling. Thank you to the ends of the earth and back for the most amazing, breath-taking, gorgeous, heart-stopping review. It's the best I've ever had and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

♥
xx

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