She just dropped it and ran!!

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

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

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.

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.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.