He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”

One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.