...it was more like bleeding than crying.

Some things were better lost than found.

A product can be quickly outdated, but a successful brand is timeless.

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.