It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.