We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.