“She slowly and silently looks up at me as though I’ve got three heads, one of which is speaking Mandarin, another Swahili and the third vomiting blood.”

Julianna Baggott has a set of interview questions for writers (I’ve owed her my answers for a while now), and one of them is: “What’s your advice to a writer who’s looking for a lifelong partner?”

Easy: Find someone like this.