I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay

Books may well be the only true magic.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?