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

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.