It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend."The traditional thing, " he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.

I am not sure I can.""Become sure, " said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.

Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.

Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD, ’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?

They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.

The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could.

Be brave. Things will find their shape.

At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices.

Well. I am not afraid. But to protect you, Katerina, I will be discreet." Plain Kate considered a cat's idea of discretion, and was frightened.

I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses.

As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return.(“The Face of the Skies”)

I don't think about how to live my life. I just live it.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.