I want to use this in a story sometime. Saving it here:

(thinking about terrorists): “Aren’t you afriad?”

He snorted and said, “No.”

“Why not?”

“Fear isn’t one of the four stages of grief. Anger is.”

“What are you grieving?”

“The loss of my freedom,” he said, and looked blankly out the window.


I probably won’t use it exactly, but evokes a character for me.  That’s part of my process, often. I have trouble defining a character without writing about them — or writing about characters without defining them.  So it’s back and forth and a prayer that what I discover doesn’t contradict the story I want to tell.

Which also happens too often:)