The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.

There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.