If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.
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.
What is fear but courage's shadow?
There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.