If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.

This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.

What is needed is never to be had without price.

The sun is new every day

If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.

Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.