All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

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

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.

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

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.