Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.