The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.