It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead, he seemed to land heavily within her, like a black stone falling.