Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

Let's boogie,' he (Leo) said. 'Before I come to my senses

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.