A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.

A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Honey, have you seen your sister?” She’s on Jupiter, Mom.

Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight.

You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!