If you have to hit--hit low.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.

Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.