Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.