I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.