Say What?

I've been thinking a lot lately about characters and how authors develop them for the reader. They almost always help a reader to visualize characters by providing physical descriptions, and they often reveal what characters are like through their actions.
Did you know we can learn about a character by what he or she says or thinks? This will often show the reader what type of person he or she is. Think about it. Have you ever listened to someone talk and then made a judgment about what kind of a person he or she is based on what was said?

I want you to look through your book and find some dialogue between two characters or a part of the story where a character is thinking. Read it carefully and decide what the words spoken or thought by the character reveal about him or her. Then tell me:

1. the title and author of your book
2. the character's name and what he or she said or thought
(Be careful to use quotation marks correctly!)
3. Tell what this revealed about the character to you.

For example, here's what I would write based on a character in a book I recently read :

In Water for the Elephants, written by Sara Gruen, the main character Jacob is thinking, "I knew how important it was to keep her secret, and keep it I did - for the rest of her life, and then beyond. In seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul."
From these thoughts I know that Jacob is an extremely trustworthy and one-of-a-kind soul! Most people can't keep a secret to themselves for over five minutes!

Get the idea? Okay! Now tell me about one of your characters!