She considered the familiar conundrum inherent in complimenting a child for doing something well in the course of what ought not to have been done at… - Lois McMaster Bujold

Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed.

I don’t write stories to tell readers what to think, or even tell them what I think; I write stories to show me what I think. Writing is always a journey of discovery that way, as suspenseful for me as I hope it will be for the audience.

“You know,” he said as they started back up the corridor, “it might be better if we don’t yell, going in. It’s startling. It’s bound to be a lot easier to hit people if they’re not jumping around and ducking behind things.”
“They do it that way on the vids,” Mayhew offered.