Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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.
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
One must gauge one's trust carefully.