A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
You have a dizzying intellect.
I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.