Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Evil does not listen to reason.

It was all I could do to keep from lunging across the table and pressing my shuttering lips against his burning flesh. My palms were sweating profusely causing me to have to wipe them against my jeans under the table. Those last few seconds had felt like a lifetime in pause.