There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.