To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.