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

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

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

Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.

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.

If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.