That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

I love the structural part of the writing process.