Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Molly was committing dinner by that time, aided and abetted by Sanya, who seemed to take some kind of grim Russian delight in watching train wrecks in progress.

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga