I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.