Kit Reed quotes:

I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.