It's not fair!" (Ryssa)Because life was ever about fairness.Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction. - Bethany

He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.

The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Execution is everything.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.