When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

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.

Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.