How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

A man who won't listen can't hear.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Even the sky was grey. Grey and grey and greyer. The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.