I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.