After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.