If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold.