It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

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.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

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.

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.