The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.