I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

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

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.