The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.