You may very well ask what the goddess of love is doing in St. Andrews, writing trashy romances. Adapting.

You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.