Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.