I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

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.

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