I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think." "I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.