One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.