“Get into the habit of saying, ‘Speak, Lord,’ and life will become a romance.”

“Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.”

“They were not spontaneous people. They were born with too great a love of words, a passion for drama at the expense of truth, and a habit of overweighting common life with romance.”

“The compelling truth of the Restoration is that the heavens are open. This Church is a Church of revelation. Our challenge is not one in getting the Lord to speak to us. Our challenge is learning to hear what He has to say.”

“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”

“In order to strengthen steel it must first brave the fire. Moriethe is my forge and the Bone Hag my hammer. In order for my daughter to thrive in the life she must first become unbreakable. And in order to do that she needs to come to me willingly." Lord Thulath to Lord Requiem, speaking of his daughter Morgan.”