I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.