Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

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.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

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.

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