Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.