Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.

Nora Roberts is cool.

I'll see you.' He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.