I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

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