I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
“But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.”
“A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.”