Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing. And a ridiculous thing, too.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

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.

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did for a living. I said, "I write," and it seemed totally ridiculous in the face of what had just happened. I mean, I couldn't think of anything more pointless than telling stories. He asked, "What do you write?" I said, "I write children books."

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.