What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

I don't believe in writer's block.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?