If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?' If you sould ever see my face, you will lose me forever.' Why?' Psyche wanted to know. 'Are you ugly? Are you afraid I won't love you if I see your face?' Perhaps I am afraid that if you see my face, it will be THAT that you will love and not me.' I understand, believe me. I know what that feels like.

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.