5ad6c5f
The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
power-words
self-deprecating
Ilona Andrews
edd10b5
It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
humility
inspirational
love
self-deprecating
wooing
T.H. White
572c6d7
A book can't be a half fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant.
literary-criticism
self-deprecating
David Mitchell
6c08273
What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?
literary-criticism
self-deprecating
David Mitchell
2a6306c
Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.
iris-murdoch
meta
narrative
narrator
self-deprecating
the-black-prince
Iris Murdoch