Pushing magic toward the candle, I willed it to light. Nothing happened.Irys made a strangled sound and the candle burned. “Are you directing your magic to the candle?”“Yes. W

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

Another relative?" Valek asked.A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife'sthird cousin."--Valek and Moon Man

They were my family, yet they were strangers.

Don't judge what you don't know.

Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have. A simplistic and unrealistic view I knew, but it soothed me.

Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

Reality can be very boring.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?""It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize.""Must be a human thing.""Exactly.

If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.

Chicago is like a warzone. Chicago is worse than some of the people that you report, in some of the places that you report about every night, in the Middle East.

It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.