Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.

I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.

What is needed is never to be had without price.

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

The only unfair fight is the one you lose.

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.