The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

I'll live in another world, then.

All it takes is a single moment.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.