It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

Nobody ever learns anything.

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.