My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.