Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

Too soon, the sun will rise.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while

We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others’ pain and loss.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.