May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

The book [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] is about the fact that living in this world means that your heart is necessarily going to get broken. But the book also says that's okay. That's the only way to live a truly human life - with your heart getting broken - and eventually getting flooded with love.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

Reading is my passion.

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.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.