As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

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

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.