Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

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