The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.
How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.
Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.