Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

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.

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.

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

Those that yield are not always weak

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.