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

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.