A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.