Author Interview with Sarah Tabin

 

Meet Sarah Tabin - 

A 22 years old author who runs on coffee, daydreams, and the belief that love always finds its way. She chose to write 22 poems because 22 feels like a magical age where you are old enough to believe in love its like it's a Bollywood climax. Let's see what the author has to say in this interview. 

Q1. What was the exact moment or thought that inspired the title What Love Could Be?

Ans 1 - Honestly, the title came to me on my drunk birthday-night party. I was thinking about all the different ways I imagined love could exist, and suddenly What Love Could Be just felt right. It became the question behind the entire book.

Q2. You write about love being “gentle without being fragile.” What does that distinction look like in real life?

Ans 2- To me, it means being soft without losing your strength. Real love can be tender, patient and vulnerable while still having boundaries, honesty and the courage to stay through difficult moments.

Q3. The blurb highlights choosing each other in the “smallest moments.” What is one small, mundane gesture that feels like peak romance to you?

Ans 3 - Remembering the little things. How I like my food, what makes me nervous, or what makes me smile or the little things i once mentioned and doing something about it without being asked. That kind of attention feels incredibly romantic to me.

Q4. You mention “healing without rushing.” How did writing this book shape your own understanding of emotional healing?

Ans 4 - It taught me that healing doesn’t have to be loud or linear. Sometimes it is simply learning to hope again, slowly, without forcing yourself to be ready before you actually are.

Q5. How do we let go of the pressure for “picture-perfect” love and focus on just showing up with presence instead?

Ans 5 - By remembering that love isn’t a performance. It’s in the ordinary things of listening, staying, remembering, apologizing, laughing together and making each other feel safe.

Q6. You dedicated this book to “the one I will love someday.” How did it feel to write a love letter to someone you haven’t met yet?

Ans 6 - It felt strangely intimate and hopeful. I was writing to someone whose name I didn’t know, but I was putting into words all the love, tenderness and little dreams I hoped we would one day share. The book itself became a love letter sent ahead of time.

Q7. “Deep without being heavy” is such a striking phrase. How can two people build a deep bond while keeping the relationship light and safe?

Ans 7 - By making space for both seriousness and silliness. You should be able to have difficult conversations, but also laugh over stupid things, be yourself and never feel like love is something you have to constantly earn.

Q8. What do you hope a reader who currently feels damaged or bruised by love feels the moment they close this book?

Ans 8 - I hope they feel a little softer towards love again and towards themselves. I want them to believe that being hurt doesn’t mean they are incapable of being loved beautifully.

Q9. Which specific poem, page, or line in this collection felt the most vulnerable for you to write?

Ans 9 - “To the Man Who’ll Risk Loving Me” was probably the most vulnerable. It asks someone to see beyond my guardedness and still choose me with all my storms, softness and imperfections.

Q10. Love is described as “two hearts learning how to meet in the middle.” What is the hardest part about reaching that middle ground?

Ans 10 - Letting go of the need to always be right. The hardest part is learning that meeting in the middle doesn’t mean either person loses. It means both people choose understanding over winning. Both chose love over ego.

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