“What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.”

“Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally.What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure . The god's voice—not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind—”

“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 you have and no more. ”

“What you can't run away from, you have to face”

“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 food, the kind a soul needs.”

“Sometimes you can pick who buys you, and for how much. That's what power really is.”

“What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.”