Bee stings are very educational

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.