Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

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.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence