The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.