To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.