I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover__lthough she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...

Never compare your love life from what you read or watched in a movie. Those are carefully thought about, yours on the good will of fate

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

A writer's partner should be a good reader...otherwise she/he will get bored what's happening around.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience _ the rest is observation