It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel.” -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

My head felt like it was going to crack down the middle, like some demented dwarf was driving glass pins through my brain.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, ’cause you don’t get what you want. You get just what...

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is...

You’re my friend, Danny. You understand? There’s no debt between friends.”Maybe it’s just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

Why do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart.

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to...