"There is a time for patience, and there is a time for reckless abandon. There is a time when the only way to do right by yourself is to do wrong by everyone else."

That's a line, actually an entire paragraph unto itself, in my short story "In Search of the Perfect Lesbian"/short novel In Search of the Perfect Lesbian. I don't like the first sentence, I like the second one. I can't figure out if that means I have talent or I'm a hack.