No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.