For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.

A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose." "A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward.

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

I have a lot of friends who served in the regular army for a long time. Quite a few of my friends from that time went on to become full-time soldiers. But you live in a world that is entirely army. Your whole world is pretty much that military service, and it's very hard to do other things and to break out of that environment.