If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.