The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.
Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.