You've been nipping at cook's wine!!

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.