My thought is, if you’re a book lover, you’re going to enjoy winning a book even if it’s not something you’d ordinarily pick up on your own. It’s a chance to expand your horizons a little.
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
All the truth in the world is held in stories.
All stories are true.
You can’t write good characters if you can’t imagine what it’s like being in another person’s skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people’s lives to be better. You want to make that happen.
You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.
Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what’s being written in my genre, let’s not lie. But that’s not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I’d probably just die.
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.
Hespe’s mouth went firm. She didn’t scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.
It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
What has made me most proud – the things that I’ve done that I feel the most pride about – is helping people care about making the world better.
I’m not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.
To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.
I’m pretty good at putting up drywall and I’m an excellent kisser. That’s pretty much all of my skills right there.
But even this piece of flattery couldn’t distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.
No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!
Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
The way I cook it’s more like mad science. There’s a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it’s done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying – we can’t process. One person, we can process.
Appearance is a type of power.