You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.