I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round. "It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself.

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now.