If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.