It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.