The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

It was different with you, Leo. In the eyes and ears of my heart, you and the magic are one and the same.

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.