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

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

There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

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

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

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

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