It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

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

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

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

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.