Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

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

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.