What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

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

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

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

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

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

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.