Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.