The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.

To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.

Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.

Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.