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.
Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.
Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
Life is a disease.
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.