Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

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.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

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

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.