Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself