I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.
Laurell K. HamiltonSeventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
Laurell K. HamiltonTrue power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
Laurell K. HamiltonThe second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry
Laurell K. HamiltonHe made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.
Laurell K. Hamilton