What you can't pay back you pay forward.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.