If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.