And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.