And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.

Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?

A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real world." But it doesn't really work that way, as I found out. You have to come up with just as consistent an internal cosmology and magic system as you would if you were writing high fantasy.

He's not a liar at all. Not about important things. He'll tell you horrible truths, but he won't lie." She paused before she added quietly: "That's why it's generally better not ask him anything unless you know you can stand to hear the answer.

You are the central point about which his world spins.