Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

We're all homos. Homo sapiens.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.