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

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

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.

I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

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.

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.