But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die

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

My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

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.

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

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

Fitz fixes fyces fitz.Fatsafices.