Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

I was a very quiet child, quite introverted, really. Independent, yes; I didn't need a lot of supervision. Less so than I did when I got older, maybe. But I was a bookish child, not surprisingly. I could sit quite happily in a corner for hours and entertain myself with books.

I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I'm going to learn, if I'm going to research, it's probably going to lead me to writing a novel.