One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

It's only life. We all get through it.