Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.