You can support me without denigrating others

it's nice to make people laugh at you for something you do, and not something you can't control.

passionate people make their own luck

Oh, I don't wonder, ... I'm fully aware that so much of me is difficult for any one woman to handle. My majesty confuses them. It's the only explanation for why they often run away.

It was unnerving how-in the gesture-each of his fingers came free a little, revealing the insectile legs beneath.

And in a way, she found that she felt comforted. If no one had traveled this path before, then she didn't have to compare herself to anyone, did she?