Timing is a sensitive thing.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.

Is magic not enough to live for?

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.