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?

If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

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

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.

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