Theme Thursday

Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event hosted by Reading Between the Pages. It will be open from one Thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  Ex: If the theme is KISS; your sentence can have “They kissed so gently” or “Their lips touched each other” or “The smooch was so passionate”

This week -- CONVERSATION

This is from The Kneebone Boy:

"You're scared, aren't you?" Lucia asked. She didn't ask this in a taunting way. She asked this in a hopefuly way, because it's always more satisfying to be brave when someone else is afraid. Especially if it's someone who is occasionally braver than you are.

"Not exactly. I'm just slightly . . . restive," Max said.
"That's crap. You're as nervous as a pigeon," Lucia said.
"That's what I sad," said Max.
"No, you didn't. You said you were tired," Lucia replied.

There was silence in the room. Dungeons are exactly as dark as you think they would be, by the way.

"Restive doesn't mean tired," Max said finally. "It means nervous."