Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old.

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.

If you spoke to me in Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.