The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long." -Nudge

Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.

I vill now destroy the snickuh bahrs!

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.