It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

There's nothing more fabulous than an adult saying to you, "I think that you might like this one [book]." So I'm grateful every time that happens. It's an amazing thing that people care that passionately.

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.

She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.