Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?

Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin.Don't let me go crazy.The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.

The moon's a crazy sweetheart.

There is always another layer of awareness, understanding, and delight to be discovered through synchronistic and serendipitous events.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.

I know generals who disagree with [Barack] Obama, but I don't think these people are idiots or been reduced to rubble.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.