Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

The women are the strong ones, truly.

It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.