One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.