If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning.

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?