I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.