What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

But a living is not a life.

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

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.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view, you really need to stop and say the purpose of this character isn't to be somebody's sidekick or to come in and put the horse in the stable. The purpose of this character is you're getting a little window into that character's life and that character's day. You have to write them as if they're not a minor character, because they do have their own things going on.