So many miracles have not yet happened.

My favorite food is deep-fried ravioli. I always get that every year.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.