Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.

There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?