“Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116”
“The words he had written wiggled off the page and escaped from the drawer. The letters stacked themselves, one on top of the other. Their towers reached higher and higher until they stood majestic and tall, surrounding Neftali in a city of promise.”
“Everything we had built up came crashing down. In one split second, everything turned into nothing.”
“If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.”
“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch of good scenes stacked on top of each other.”
“You can't change the cards you are dealt unless you stack the deck.”