It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

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.

But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.