Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

...hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

I'd like to do an anthology. Maybe a collection of songs set in my world, or based on my world. I think that would be a lot of fun.