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.
Holly LisleI 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.
Holly LisleThis is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.
Holly LisleWillful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
Holly Lisle