If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all.

If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.

We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.