The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.