“Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

“True gratitude can never comeFrom the mind.It has to flow from the heartTo the mind, vital and bodyUntil everything that we have and areIs a sea of gratitude.”

“The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. Sometimes we try to protect them from getting booboos that are too big. Don’t. This is your protagonist, not your kid.”

“Not everything is as it seems here. Even beauty can be twisted to fit when directed by a demented mind." The Alpha to Ty after viewing the after effect of Mor'sin'dar torture.”

“Dilemma? Let him have his way with something simple, or keep getting my way and him torture me later? Hmmm. I guess I'm more of a masochist than I thought.”