You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever