Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn’t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond.

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.