“You have seven writers in your basement?Donald nods, signing, They like it here. Theres a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They dont usually make much trouble.”

“Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair, but the fine mist of the Northwest is making its way to places she didnt know were parched.”

“It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.”

“You have seven writers in your basement?”Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don’t usually make much t...”

“I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.”

“Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.”

“Good books are never finished but abandoned.”

“Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.”

“I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”

“Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”