I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.