Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

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.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.