Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

A nervous silence loosens tongues

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer